To be fair, Apache 1.x doesn't seem to be in portage anymore (for that matter, the ASF isn't going to have any more non-security releases either), so there's no way that one would "accidentally" install a 1.3.x version if one specifies USE=apache.
However, there is a valid point in that maintaining local USE flags is a pain, so I'm switching it for that reason. (Which is also why, unfortunately, the patch you've given isn't quite enough. It's something I learned when official Gentoo devs started to help me maintain the overlay.)
Thanks for the bug report.
To be fair, Apache 1.x doesn't seem to be in portage anymore (for that matter, the ASF isn't going to have any more non-security releases either), so there's no way that one would "accidentally" install a 1.3.x version if one specifies USE=apache.
However, there is a valid point in that maintaining local USE flags is a pain, so I'm switching it for that reason. (Which is also why, unfortunately, the patch you've given isn't quite enough. It's something I learned when official Gentoo devs started to help me maintain the overlay.)
This has been fixed in r351.