Re: [gentoo-dev] USE problems in ebuilds (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: the libpng problem)

[Jared H. Hudson]

USE="-foo" or export USE="-foo" from the command line
does not work currently. Daniel is working on the problem and will have 
it fixed soon.

-Jared H.

>   and for testing I tried the command line:
>
> USE="-tk" emerge scilab
>
>   now, the dependency-check comes out as it should, portage doesn't
>   start to grab TCL/TK.  _but_ the "`use tk`" doesn't seem to notice
>   the USE="-tk" statement.  I have "tk" listed as a USE-flag in
>   /etc/make.conf but I would _really_ expect Portage to ignore that
>   when I explicitly say that I don't want tk right now on the command
>   line.  hopefully I'm doing something very stupid, can someone please
>   tell me how to deal with this?
>
>   (sent to both gentoo-user and gentoo-dev, with reply set to
>   gentoo-dev)
>