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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 16:09:49
Message-Id: 20080518170941.3185e55d@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays by William Hubbs
1 On Sun, 18 May 2008 09:01:12 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
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3 > There is no way to set use flags separately for packages in overlays.
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5 That's not always true. If the overlay provides a version that is not in
6 portage, like a cat/pkg-9999 for a CVS/SVN ebuild, then a
7 version-specific entry in package.use will only affect the overlay
8 version.
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10 However, /etc/portage/package.use is the correct place to set
11 package-specific USE variables fro all packages, no matter whether they
12 come from an overlay or the portage tree.
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16 Neil Bothwick
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