Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] What is happening to the desktops?
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:03:20
Message-Id: 200309290303.33475.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] What is happening to the desktops? by Norberto Bensa
1 On Monday 29 September 2003 02:45, Norberto Bensa wrote:
2 > C. Brewer wrote:
3 > > I know I'm prolly gonna hear the "if you don't like it, don't build it"
4 > > attitude at least once, but I'd just like to check something out without
5 > > building 30 pkgs I wont see just to check out the 15 I will.
6 >
7 > emerge --nodeps package
8
9 this doesnt help if the ebuild assumes a package will be there and thus
10 hardcodes a configure option in the ebuild ...
11 -mike