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From: david@×××××××××.com
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:59:17
Message-Id: 20031022225847.GA22442@redhate.futuretel.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags by Dhruba Bandopadhyay
1 On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:36:44PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
2 > Well you can either enable the option implicitly without a use flag or
3 > enable it with explicit mention dependent on a use flag. The more packages
4 > which use that option the more the likelihood of a global use flag else
5 > local or no use flag.
6 >
7
8 Ok, well can anybody explain to me the messyness of the 'doc' use flag
9 ? I see some packages support it, some don't, the ones that do seem
10 to all do it differently. It would be really nice if say.. i wanted a
11 small router type system and I could give emerge USE="-man -info -doc"
12
13 and omit man pages, info pages, and /usr/share/doc type things...
14 is there any effort for this or do people not care ?
15 /me would be willing to try such a thing if there was interest
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Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>