On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 7:13 AM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > 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.
If it adds no additional dependencies, why do you care?
