On 07/20/2018 03:37 AM, Matt Turner wrote: >> >> If I want to undo your new flag, I have to set USE="-udev" globally, and >> that clobbers any important per-package defaults that maintainers have set. > > I understand the concern at least in theory. But can you please give > me a concrete example of a package where you don't want USE=udev and > another example of a package where you do? >
I... probably don't want USE=udev enabled anywhere. What does it actually do? I don't know, and the flag description is useless, and I don't have time to read the source code to every package with the flag. But, I'm willing to trust the maintainers who have set IUSE="+udev" in their ebuilds. As an example of how this works out, I have both sys-apps/hwids and sys-apps/pciutils built with USE=udev, but media-gfx/gimp built without it. > What dependency are you trying to avoid? Or is it just a design issue? I just want to have the option to disable it, without having to maintain my own copy of the entire "linux" profile hierarchy.
