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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 14:13:40
Message-Id: 200805181613.11809.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays by Alexander Meinke
1 On Sunday 18 May 2008, Alexander Meinke wrote:
2
3 > So I think you wont be able to set USE-Flags specially for layman
4 > packages.
5
6 That appears to be correct, as there is no mention of overlay-specific
7 USE settings anywhere in the layman docs.
8
9 So, it seems that one still has only the same two options that portage
10 offers:
11
12 - global, in make.conf
13 - per package/version in package.use
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15 and the presence of layman does not change this rule in any way.
16 Actually this makes sense - all layman does for portage is provide a
17 whole new bunch of ebuilds to select from. Portage is not aware of
18 layman and so can't change the way it deals with USE flags because of
19 layman
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22 Alan McKinnon
23 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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