Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> USE="-* ${USECPU} ${USEOTHER}"
>
> If you want to look at it that way, what I've
> really done is to replace the default USE flag set with my own defaults... *including* the defaults specified in individual ebuilds. About the default flags in profiles one may argue, but the ebuild-enabled defaults are usually very decent and strongly encouraged by upstream. For this reason using "-Flag" in make.conf should better be used sparringly: Unless you are sure that you want to disable a particular feature really *globally*, it is better to turn it off in /etc/portage/package.use for each package separately so that packages which you might install in some future (or which add this flag in some future) do not have already changed their default.
