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From: MIkey <mikey@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 18:22:34
Message-Id: 200603041818.k24IIJCS011711@gw.open-hosting.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples) by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2
3 > On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 12:04:11 -0600 MIkey <mikey@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
4 > | At my job we aim to eventually rid ourselves completely of MS
5 > | products on several thousand (local and remote) desktops and replace
6 > | them with some sort of thin linux client running the citrix metaframe
7 > | client. They will be running in kiosk mode. No user will have the
8 > | ability to get to a window manager and browse around
9 > | in /usr/share/doc. They don't even know what the heck a man page is.
10 >
11 > Then you should use INSTALL_MASK, not a USE flag.
12
13 Please excuse my ignorance, but what the heck is INSTALL_MASK and where is
14 it documented? Can it exclude things from being included in binary
15 packages?
16
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[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples) Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples) Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@×××××××××××.fr>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples) Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>