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On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 08:21, Sean Mitchell wrote: |
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> > > For my money I think that a command line switch to emerge/ebuild to |
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> > > turn certain USE variables on or off would be better. The idea that |
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> > > a user ALWAYS or NEVER wants to use a particular thing seems a bit |
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> > > rigid to me. |
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> > You can do this with BASH already. just set the use variably as you |
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> > like it and then emerge. or |
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> > % USE="foo bar baz" emerge foo/bar |
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> > I am not up on the syntax, but you can also use += or -= to remove |
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> > variables, I think. |
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> That would work, but I'd rather see a non-shell specific like: |
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> emerge --do-not-use=foo --do-not-use=bar --use=baz foo/bar |
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I think this is the best way of doing this. In other words, I seconds |
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this approach. |
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> Makes it easier for a GUI frontend too.... |
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> Sean |
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