On 07/24/2018 12:37 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> harder to customize, because you can't turn it off. > > This was already addressed in a previous comment - PMS can be modified > to nullify flags Saying that hypothetically we could modify the PMS and wait for a new EAPI and wait for all package managers to catch up and wait a year after that for the upgrade path and then update the profiles to a new EAPI and then implement this new feature is just an indirect way of saying "you can't do it."
Changing the PMS won't let me set USE="-udev" in make.conf, anyway. It would only affect sub-profiles.