On 12 February 2016 at 03:19, M. J. Everitt <m.j.ever...@iee.org> wrote:
> I would avoid complicating the USE flag system .. it's straightforward
> as it is, and has already been 'tweaked' by the auto-unmask feature,
> leading to large package.use files and has no support of per-category
> files (that I know of).


Auto-unmask is creating a problem here though, it enables useflags,
and has no way to disable them again when their utility has long
passed.

As per

> and has no support of per-category files (that I know of).

# /etc/portage/package.use/dev-qt
dev-qt/*  qt3support

^ Legal, works




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Kent

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