[19:54:52] hi, can someone tell me how to unmask a use flag in paludis? [19:58:37] you'll need to define your own profile. use flag masks aren't supposed to be overridden by users [19:58:57] use masks aren't like package masks, and it's a shame the same word is used in both cases [20:01:08] take libressl use flag for example, it is masked with reason "No stable libressl yet", so I don't see why it should be made hard for users to override it if I want to use libressl in an unstable state. [20:03:20] well, gentoo provides no mechanism to distinguish between that and "yes, really, you shouldn't be turning on USE=sparc on x86 to avoid bringing in epiphany as a dependency of gnome" [20:05:18] the fact that gentoo doesn't distinguishes should be enough to give the option to users to take an reasonable action and override a masked use flag in exactly such a case. Imho :-) [20:06:11] well, the only case that's supposed to exist is the latter [20:06:24] abusing use masks to do the former is a relatively recent mistake [20:06:58] is that written in PMS or is this the opinion of paludis development? [20:07:50] that's how things have been historically. PMS simply doesn't provide a mechanism for doing what some gentoo developers are doing [20:08:02] so, as is typically the case, they abuse a different mechanism to make repoman shut up [20:09:24] obviously, what has been historically has now changed. So I would kindly ask you to revise your opinion at this point. [20:09:47] no. get a feature added to EAPI 7 to solve it properly