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From: Luis Ortiz <wichos@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where do these use flags come from?
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 03:33:49
Message-Id: 440271DA.3030205@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Where do these use flags come from? by "Brett I. Holcomb"
1 Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
2 > Evidently I didn't understand what you were asking the first time - sorry it
3 > didn't meet your needs. I learned something, too - that the eclasses can
4 > pass their flags on.
5 >
6 > On Sunday February 26 2006 22:03, Bo Andresen wrote:
7 >
8 >>On Monday 27 February 2006 03:49, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
9 >>
10 >>>If you look at the ebuild there is an IUSE entry. You can also use
11 >>>equery uses package name to see what it uses.
12 >>
13 >>Perhaps you should read the original post a little more carefully... ;) As
14 >>you'll see I do not ask where the use flag is set rather I ask where it
15 >>comes from. Secondly it is not in the IUSE of entry of that ebuild rather
16 >>it is in the IUSE of one of the eclasses that the ebuild inherits from (I
17 >>had no idea it could inherit use flags too). And thirdly I actually do use
18 >>equery uses in the original post... BTW stop top-posting, please. :)
19 >>
20 >>--
21 >>Bo Andresen
22 >
23
24 I just learned that today :)
25
26 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=2&style=printable
27 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?style=printable&part=2&chap=1
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