On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> On 2007/07/10, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > the no* flags were introduced more to address default behavior than
> > the -* case, so yes we can kick many of the no* USE flags
>
> To address only the default behavior, adding "foo" to the profile USE
> instead of using a "nofoo" flag would have been enough.  This could
> have been done long ago, but my understanding has always been that it
> was not considered a good enough solution because it was not -*-proof.

for some flags yes ... for others, i dislike that idea for the exact same 
reason for the other profile-based suggestions: these defaults should live in 
the ebuild, not the profile
-mike

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