RE: [gentoo-dev] USE settings for specific apps

[Sean Mitchell]

> > For my money I think that a command line switch to emerge/ebuild to
> > turn certain USE variables on or off would be better. The idea that
> > a user ALWAYS or NEVER wants to use a particular thing seems a bit
> > rigid to me.
>
> You can do this with BASH already.  just set the use variably as you
> like it and then emerge.  or
>
> % USE="foo bar baz" emerge foo/bar
>
> I am not up on the syntax, but you can also use += or -= to remove
> variables, I think.

That would work, but I'd rather see a non-shell specific like:

emerge --do-not-use=foo --do-not-use=bar --use=baz foo/bar

Makes it easier for a GUI frontend too....


Sean