Re: [gentoo-dev] Per package use flags?

[Georgi Georgiev]

On 30/06/2003 at 13:03:14(+0200), Patrick Kursawe used 0.9K just to say:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 06:58:55PM +0800, Michael Kohl wrote:
> > 2. Proposed solution:
> >
> > A file /etc/portage/custom.use (or however you want to call it), that is
> > somewhat similar to package.mask (or /etc/portage/package.mask for that
> > matter as it overrides the standard settings), which contains one entry
> > per line in the form of:
> >
> > foo-bar/foobar "-foo bar"
>
> Sounds nice, was already proposed a while ago. I would really like it.

I'd join and say that I'd really like to see such a feature as well. Currently
I keep a list in /var/db/warning-rebuild that says

vpopmail        USE=-mysql
courier-imap    USE=-mysql

because these two packages become hardly usable (in my setup) if compiled with
mysql support.

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