On 07/19/18 23:04, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > No I'm not. I'm saying add them per-package, because it's a better > design. We have package.use in profiles now, not just IUSE defaults. > > Global defaults have problems: > > * They can't be undone. It's next to impossible for me to undo > USE=udev when set in a profile that is inherited by all others. > > * USE=udev means different things for different packages. You think it > "makes udev work" or whatever, but nobody has any idea what it does > for half of the packages that use it. The meaning is package- > specific, so the default should be package-specific. > > * They're easy to set, but hard do unset when you realize you were > wrong a year from now. > > If you really want to enable it globally after being told that it's bad > engineering and downright annoying, go do it in a profile that I can > avoid and not "linux". >
I believe you're arguing against profile global USE in general, can you start a new thread for that if you believe it's worth discussing? We do have global USE in profiles now and I believe that the sane default for linux profiles is to have udev support globally. -Ben
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