Ffrom the man page: "The 2nd char is the setting from the /etc/make.profile/use.defaults ...." But there is no /etc/make.profile/use.defaults (at least at my system ?).
Of course there is... # readlink /etc/make.profile ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0
might be I'm stupid, but: n22 /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0 # pwd /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0 n22 /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0 # find . -name use.defaults n22 /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0 # I find neither the file /etc/make.profile/use.defaults nor the file /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0/use.defaults
(In reply to comment #2) > might be I'm stupid, but: Yeah, so there's none for your profile. Still not a bug. # rlocate use.defaults /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/use.defaults /usr/portage/profiles/embedded/use.defaults /usr/portage/profiles/hardened/amd64/use.defaults /usr/portage/profiles/hardened/x86/use.defaults