Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage2 super USE flag suggestin

[Matthew Walker]

You don't have to put a minus in front of everything. In make.conf, put
USE="-* <your use settings here>". Then you will only get exactly what you
asked for.

For those who have said they aren't sure if the -* works, I've tested it,
and it does.

Alexander Gretencord said:
> On Thursday 18 July 2002 17:55, maciek@×××××××.net wrote:
>> However, a simpler solution would be to introduce some priority
>> of USE flags. "-X" would also say -gtk because gtk depends on X. Then,
>> we could eventually introduce f.e. "sound" use flag and make alsa,
>> oss... dependant on it.
>
> USE Flags only work on _optional_ dependencies. GTK+ needs X so it doesn't
>  matter if you have -X in your USE flag GTK+ still needs X even if you
> don't  want X. So if you want GTK+ you _have_ to install X.
>
> I think the "more make.defaults files" solution is the best. It sucks to
> first  have to see through the make.defaults, copy everything and put a -
> in front  of nearly every word just to get a server up and running without
> X :)
>
> Alex
>
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