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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Detecting gcj in ebuilds
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 10:26:27
Message-Id: 200411201126.24496.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Detecting gcj in ebuilds by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Saturday 20 November 2004 07:13, Duncan wrote:
2 > Conceptually, remember that USE flags ARE NOT intended to affect
3 > REQUIREMENTS, only OPTIONS. Thus, -gtk doesn't mean that emerging Gnome
4 > will fail even tho it requires gtk, ONLY that any packages that (for
5 > instance) may use gtk or qt libs will be built without the gtk support.
6
7 If you want to make sure that gtk never gets merged, you have a very simple
8 option. You add it to /etc/portage/package.mask, and portage will complain
9 with every package that needs/wants it.
10
11 Paul
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14 Paul de Vrieze
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