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From: Max Kalika <max+lists.gentoo.dev@×××××××××.edu>
To: "Patrick Börjesson" <psycho@××××××××.cx>, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package-specific USE-flags?
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:32:20
Message-Id: 34580000.1058311929@valkyrie.lsit.ucsb.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package-specific USE-flags? by "Patrick Börjesson"
1 Quoting Patrick Börjesson <psycho@××××××××.cx>:
2
3 > I must be missing something. I went and downloaded the patch, patched
4 > /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py, created and edited
5 > /etc/portage/package.use to my preference (according to the syntax given
6 > in the bug-page) but emerge --info won't give me the output I want. Is
7 > there something else I should do in order for it to work?
8
9 Did you get the emerge patch as well? Both portage.py and emerge need to
10 be patched. After this, emerge --info should have a PKGUSE= entry.
11
12 > /etc/portage/package.use is attached to see if you can find something
13 > wrong with it. I began with a _very_ simple config =)
14
15 Seems ok.
16
17 > By the way, why isn't this feature being incorporated in the official
18 > portage-release? You've apparently gotten some response from official
19 > gentoo-developers.
20
21 Time, or rather lack thereof, I imagine.
22
23 ---max kalika
24 --max@×××××××××.edu
25 -lsit systems administrator
26
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