On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:49 PM Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On 07/24/2018 12:37 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> harder to customize, because you can't turn it off. > > > > This was already addressed in a previous comment - PMS can be modified > > to nullify flags > Saying that hypothetically we could modify the PMS and wait for a new > EAPI and wait for all package managers to catch up and wait a year after > that for the upgrade path and then update the profiles to a new EAPI and > then implement this new feature is just an indirect way of saying "you > can't do it." > > Changing the PMS won't let me set USE="-udev" in make.conf, anyway. It > would only affect sub-profiles.
Certainly it should be implemented so that you could use it in make.conf. I also said nothing about the order of changes here. The PMS change could be made and be effective before the profile change is made. -- Rich
