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Man. Is this thread really going to continue?? |
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On 3/23/09, Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 18:58 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>> Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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>> > On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 22:18 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>> >> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> >> |
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>> >>> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:26:40 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>> >>> |
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>> >>> |
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>> >>> |
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>> >>>>>> emerge -pvDu --reinstall changed-use @world |
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>> >>>>>> |
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>> >>>>>> ??? Certainly a lot more typing. ;-) |
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>> >>>>>> |
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>> >>>>>> |
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>> >>> |
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>> >>> |
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>> >>>>> Use an alias and it's less typing. |
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>> >>>>> |
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>> >>>>> |
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>> >>> |
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>> >>> |
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>> >>>> Or add it to make.conf. I think that would work too. |
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>> >>>> |
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>> >>>> |
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>> >>> It would work, every time you called emerge, whether you wanted that |
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>> >>> option or not.I prefer to have aliases for commands with options that |
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>> >>> I |
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>> >>> call often, but not every time. |
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>> >>> |
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>> >>> |
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>> >> I'm not real familiar with aliases but know what it is. If you use the |
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>> >> alias method, how would you disable it for a one time run? |
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>> > Uh.. you don't "disable" it. You simply don't use the alias. |
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>> Oh, OK. <Dale waves hand over head.> If it is set up to add that |
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>> option, how do you tell it not to use it? |
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> Unless I'm misunderstanding something... |
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> It's not an "option". It's an alias. If you have |
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> $ alias myalias="emerge --foo --bar --baz" |
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> Then to use the alias you simply type |
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> $ myalias |
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> If you don't want to use the alias, well, don't type it. I.e. |
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> $ emerge --la --di --dah |
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> or |
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> $ someotheralias |
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> Or perhaps you don't aren't understanding what shell aliases are? |
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_(command) |
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James Skinner |
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