On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 22 January 2013 03:28, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Dustin C. Hatch <admiraln...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> The package defaults have gotten out of hand, in my opinion. I use >>> default/linux/amd64/10.0 on all my machines and my /etc/portage/package.use >>> directories have dozens of -flag entries for packages with ridiculous >>> defaults, and almost none that come from the profile. I'm considering >>> removing pkginternal from USE_ORDER. >> >> And this is the problem with having the default profile be really >> minimal. It just moves the problem into per-package defaults that are >> much more painful to override. > > No offense, but that's nonsense. You override it the exact same way. >
Indeed, you're correct. It is not necessary to do what Dustin suggested to disable package use-defaults - if you set -foo in make.conf it will apply to all packages even if it is a use-default. Rich
