As the number of use flags increase, and as use flags themselves change or become deprecated, it would be nice to organize use flags in a "tree" hierarchy. Perhaps use flags could be in their own file (e.g. /etc/make.conf.use) and organized much like the kernel's config; for example: CONFIG_AUDIO CONFIG_AUDIO_ARTS CONFIG_AUDIO_ESD CONFIG_VIDEO CONFIG_VIDEO_FRAMEBUFFER CONFIG_VIDEO_DIRECTFB CONFIG_VIDEO_BOOTSPLASH CONFIG_X CONFIG_DGA CONFIG_GLUT By disabling CONFIG_AUDIO (equivalent to USE="-audio"), the user would know for sure that things like sound daemons have also been disabled. This reduces the number of use flags a user has to look at while installing Gentoo, and it also makes it easier for developers to add/deprecate/change use flags. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
this has already been done in GLEP 29
