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On Sunday 24 April 2011 21:30:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:17:23 +0100, David W Noon wrote: |
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> > >Doing this today I've had a couple of packages that needed to be |
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> > >emerged with USE=-doc when they failed. |
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> > Those would be jinja and sphinx. They are notorious for their circular |
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> > dependency, which requires USE='-doc' to bypass. |
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> It's rarely desirable to enable doc globally. It is best to enable only |
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> for those packages where you need extended documentation. |
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@Alan Mackenzie: |
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What Neil is saying can be achieved by setting package specific USE flags in |
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the file /etc/portage/package.use; e.g. use an entry like: |
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dev-python/jinja -doc i18n |
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to exclude USE flag "doc", but include "i18n". |
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Regards, |
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Mick |