> ...yet. Past Portage releases don't have it. Future Portage releases may > not. Other package managers don't. Using it at all is to intentionally > screw around with things that ebuilds should not know or need to, is > asking for trouble, and will have a certain group on your back as soon > as they find out (not just the paludis developers either). Especially so > when a correct solution has already been posted in this thread. Didn't I say that's a portage specific dirty-hack and rather a curiosity?! It came to my mind b/c spyderous tried setting IUSE="". It can make someone read ebuild.sh code and see why that doesn't work - only better.
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