On 03/02/17 08:43 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 02/03/2017 08:21 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >>> >>> How about rather changing our defaults to satisfy the minimalists who >>> don't mind drastically reduced functionality and usability in pursuit >>> of "minimalism" we just strive to make USE="-*" mostly usable, so the >>> minimalists can get what they want, while still having sane defaults. >>> >> >> I'm in favour of this too -- I know we don't "officially" support >> USE="-*" but I think we should still strive to make it work with >> minimal effort to end-users -- that effort being mainly setting >> whatever is necessary for REQUIRED_USE resolution. >> > > It will never be easy, because USE="-*" overrides your profile. What > people want is a way to have USE="-*" apply between the base profile and > the one that they select. >
ok you lost me. Could you provide an explicit example of what you would want to see enabled in the profile (while everything else is disabled) that you don't get when USE="-*" is set? It's sounding more and more like you just want to be able to turn off all IUSE defaults, and you can effectively do that by changing the USE order can't you?
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