> The kernel doesn't give you a choice of multiple independent patch > sets. We have just a few options that bundle many patches. You can't > selectively turn them on and off. > > I'm not asking whether patching bitcoin is good or bad. > > I'm pointing out that if you want to do the same thing with separate > packages that we currently do with 3 different USE flags (that I can > see offhand), you need a total of 8 packages. If you want to make > knots an option and it isn't one already, then make that 16.
We were only talking about the "ljr" use flag here, weren't we?