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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 02:00:48AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote |
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> If you then mentioned that their defaults broke Dale's setup, they'd |
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> likely answer "Who's Dale?" followed shortly by "None of us have |
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> hardware like Dale to test. Sorry 'bout that. Set USE=-hal" |
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Of course the USE flag advice is given *AFTER* the new flag breaks |
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your system. That's why I use "-*" at the beginning of my USE in |
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/etc/make.conf. I never found out whether hal would break my system<G>. |
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If Dale had used "-*" his X would not have broken, even if some other |
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ebuild pulled it onto the machine as a hard-coded dependancy. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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