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Brian Harring wrote:
| Yeah, but the angle I'm pushing for default IUSE's ...er.. use is
| eliminating no* flags, and giving ebuild maintainers more flexibility
| in breaking the package down into conditionals.
|
| I really don't see -* being all that useful long term frankly, since
| the major usage of it I've seen is either within cascaded profiles, or
| nuking autouse; people do block profile use flags also, but killing
| autouse falls in with killing profiles :)

I don't think that having -* not actually do -* is a good idea. And most
people adding local flags don't really consider the -* case so creating
no* flags isn't a major concern.

~From my POV, -* is expected to not work well, but it should do what it
suggests: subtract everything.

Thanks,
Donnie
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