On 10/9/19 7:57 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 19:45:34 -0700 > Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> I'd prefer to disable --autounmask by default and include warnings about >> harmful behavior in the documentation. > > I think autounmasks behaviour with regards to USE flags is useful, > (heh), its just everything else it does tends to violate stability > assumptions. > > For instance, I can see why automatically escalating "arch" to "~arch" > may be useful in some cases, but its a very dangerous default, > *especially* for perl.
We can add --autounmask-use=<y|n> option that's enabled by default when --autounmask is unspecified. When --autounmask=y is specified, we'll have full autounmask behavior. When --autounmask=n is specified, we'll have --autounmask-use=n behavior. -- Thanks, Zac
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