Hi  Michał, welcome to the list, your post came up in a thread I was

participating in.

> The major issue with :USE is its ubiquity - packages :USE literally
> everything, a lot of other packages, even (and especially) code that
> they have no control over.

But don't _you_ ever use :USE it for packages that you _do_ have

control over?  Like an internal utils package?  Or a test package

that uses the package under testing?  Otherwise I agree with you

about the ":USE abuse". 

See also:

João