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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: qt3support: only in /etc/make.conf, never in /etc/portage/package.use
Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 03:01:40
Message-Id: hrle7o$p6i$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] qt3support: only in /etc/make.conf, never in /etc/portage/package.use by Dale
1 On 2010-05-03, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 >> After stumbling around this issue on several machines for way too
4 >> long, I finally stumbled across the solution: don't enable/disable
5 >> qt3support on a per-package basis. If you want qt3support put it in
6 >> /etc/make.conf.
7 [...]
8
9 > I rarely put a USE flag in anything but make.conf.
10
11 I tend to -- probably misleading myself that I'm "saving" on something
12 (disk space, update time, who knows).
13
14 > Usually, if I need support for something, it is more than one package
15 > or that one package will want the support enabled for other packages
16 > it builds on as well.
17
18 I'll have to remember that -- it will probably avoid similar problems
19 with other subsystems.
20
21 > Glad you got it figured out tho. At least by learning it the hard way,
22 > you won't forget it. ;-)
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24 Sad to say, but I probably will. Hopefully google will find my post.
25
26 Honestly, that's happend to me a couple times: I trip over a problem,
27 and when looking for the solution Google finds a 6 year old thread (I
28 started) from the first time I ran into the problem. It's really
29 embarassing when your working with somebody else on the problem and
30 _they_ stumble across that old thread containing the solution.
31
32 --
33 Grant