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A disabled USE flag is not the same as the absence of the flag in make.conf. A disabled use flag will actively disable features, whereas not listing a flag at all will use the default - enabled or disabled - as set by the package maintainer.
A disabled USE flag is not the same as the absence of the flag in make.conf. A disabled use flag will actively disable features, whereas not listing a flag at all will use the default - enabled or disabled - as set by the package maintainer.