But now I love the flexibility. It’s definitely a feature to be able to add arbitrary folders in the home directory – and map them to wherever. Hadn’t even thought about the possibility

Besides, it is actually helpful for us to have a second set of eyes (you arch testers) to doublecheck we didn’t break something. I know it is bothersome to deal with the recursive dependencies but … don’t think it’s much nicer on us either.

For what it’s worth, I already ranted about this kind of situation over two years ago. The problem is that unless you have upstream developers understanding how most distributions’ processes work, you’re not going to be able to solve anything.

For what concerns USE=doc, by the way, the issue is that most Rakefiles won’t let you just build documentation without the test dependencies installed (and the reverse is also true), so half the time USE=doc and USE=test are wired to the same set of dependencies. We’re doing the best we can to avoid those situations, but bundler makes it even more complex.

And I wouldn’t buy a device which doesn’t support usb mass storage in a first place. Let such vendors die, don’t support them and we don’t have such problem in future.