I really like gregtech. But all the items that it replaces from other mods make me go bananas 
I like to have my items from one specific mod to make it easy to build recipes for the ME system from the AE mod.
For example all ingots, ore, dust etc have been setup mainly to be from thermal expansion mod since i use those machines most of the time.
But when i pulverize/crush nether quartz into nether quartz dust it becomes the gregtech version. I know i can fix this in the unification file and it turns into the AE version. But it does not do this transformation inside the ME system. It stays as gregtech until i pick it out.
This messes up recipes and lots of things.
I could turn unification off and fix it. But what ive heard that is a really bad thing to do.
Is there some other way to make items become the version inside the ME system direct?
Now i took nether quartz dust as an example, but this happens for many other items. They dont turn into the version needed untill it is handled manually...