IMHO, this USE flag seems to be only specific to Biology Open Source and not to the whole Gentoo comunity, isn't it ?
n22 /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0 # emerge --info Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://194.117.143.71 http://194.117.143.70" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac acpi alsa apache2 arts asf avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt css cups dlloader dri dvd emboss encode exif fastbuild ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 isdnlog jai java javascript jimi joystick jpeg kde libg++ libwww live logrotate mad mbox mikmod mmx mmxext motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection rtc samba sdl session slp snmp spell spl sse sse2 ssl subversion tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userlocales vorbis win32codecs xml xorg xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux linguas_de linguas_en userland_GNU video_cards_vga video_cards_radeon" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
(In reply to comment #0) > IMHO, this USE flag seems to be only specific to Biology Open Source and not to > the whole Gentoo comunity, isn't it ? That's not what make.defaults it for. Search gentoo-user mailing list for this discussion (and gentoo-dev ML as well). Also, if you don't use any apps that have IUSE="emboss", the default value is completely irrelevant to you.
