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From: Ryan Phillips <ryan.phillips@××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge overide options
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 18:51:26
Message-Id: 2117.65.106.90.42.1021074685.squirrel@linux.bagwan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] emerge overide options by david mattatall
1 This appears to work:
2
3 USE="-gtk -x ncurses" emerge vim
4 or
5 USE="-* ncurses" emerge vim
6
7 The later will ignore everything set by /etc/make.conf
8 but only include ncurses.
9
10 What is wrong with this method?
11
12 -ryan
13
14 > This idea hit me today at school and I wanted to get it to you guys as
15 > quickly as possible. So without further APU here it is:
16 >
17 > emerge vim -o -gtk -x ncurses
18 >
19 > This would overide the current settings for gtk x and ncurses in the
20 > /etc/make.conf file.
21 >
22 > emerge vim -O ncurses
23 >
24 > What this would do is apply nothing but the ncurses use flag to the
25 > compile.
26 >
27 > What do you think, if you need me to elaborate I could.