portage should (especially when called with -v) print out the arguments it sends to ./configure This would make it a lot easier to find out why some feature didn't get enabled/disabled the way we would have liked Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Done and done.
Should be in pre17 afaik. That said, it's rather ugly as a default...
you know, i thought so too at first, but i find it very useful and since it's really a big overhead issue ...