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From: Drake Wyrm <wyrm@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] punting the use.defaults feature
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:21:30
Message-Id: 20051118191858.GA28166@phaenix.haell.com
In Reply to: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] punting the use.defaults feature by Jakub Moc
1 Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o> wrote:
2 > Well, I don't think so... If I want to enable a feature for one
3 > specific ebuild and a USE flag in /etc/portage/package.use pulls in a
4 > dep, that in turn enables that use flag globally, it's obviously not
5 > what I intended and forces me to add yet another -flag into make.conf
6
7 If you don't want portage to employ dark magic in guessing which use
8 flags you want enabled, don't let it. Specify your use flags explicitly.
9
10 Put USE="-* oneuse twouse reduse blueuse" in make.conf to set the
11 globals, and _then_ start tweaking in "package.use".
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] punting the use.defaults feature Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] punting the use.defaults feature Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] punting the use.defaults feature Zac Medico <zmedico@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] punting the use.defaults feature Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>