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On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:00:17AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote |
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> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:51:26 +1000, Amphibian wrote: |
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> > Should I be explicitly declaring flag or -flag in the make.conf for |
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> > every possible flag? |
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> That would be unworkable as flags are added or removed. It would also |
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> override and changes to the defaults without your knowing why. Get into |
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> the habit of using -av with emerge. You'll son see when you need to make |
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> changes to the flags. |
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I prefer to start off USE in /etc/make.conf with "-*", and then |
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explicitly list the flags I want turned on. I also control a few |
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packages with /etc/portage/package.use. This combines to give me full |
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control over what's going on... that's the Gentoo spirit. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca |
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