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On Saturday 06 October 2007 21:01:06 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > > Do you need the doc USE flag? Unless you are coding with the package, |
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> > > you normally do not need it. The flag enables extra documentation, |
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> > > not the standard man/info pages. |
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> > It was a mistake when I started use gentoo at the very beginning, now |
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> > if I remove the "doc" USE flag globally, most of the packages in my |
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> > system will need a rebuild, and that's take a very long time. |
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> You could set it in /etc/portage/package.use for individual packages as |
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> they come up for upgrade, then change it globally and rebuild when you |
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> have the time. It's not as though the system can't be used while emerging |
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> and not all packages use this flag anyway. |
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Or he could stop using --newuse for a while... |
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Bo Andresen |
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