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Bug 870130

Summary: [Future EAPI] Rename IUSE → OPTIONS
Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects Reporter: Matt Turner <mattst88>
Component: PMS/EAPIAssignee: PMS/EAPI <pms>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: esigra, gentoo, pacho, sam
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Bug Blocks: 174380    

Description Matt Turner gentoo-dev 2022-09-14 16:12:20 UTC
"IUSE"/"USE" is a bad name for what it is.

Trying to explain why and how "IUSE"/"USE" means this is rightly difficult. Exherbo uses "MYOPTIONS"/"OPTIONS". Those seem like better names.