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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Understanding new ruby dependencies
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 06:04:24
Message-Id: 4FBC5670.6070705@orlitzky.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Understanding new ruby dependencies by Chris Stankevitz
1 On 05/22/2012 09:10 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
2 >
3 > How was I supposed to learn the "proper" way of dealing with this
4 > RUBY-related system change?
5
6 The way I learned was by watching the emerge output:
7
8 $ emerge -pv dev-ruby/rails
9
10 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
11
12 Calculating dependencies... done!
13 [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-rails-0.16 2 kB
14 [ebuild N ] dev-ruby/tmail-1.2.7.1-r2 USE="-debug -doc -test"
15 RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 -jruby -ree18" 436 kB
16
17 and wondering, "RUBY_TARGETS, what the hell is that?"
18
19 I'm sure there's a proper way, but that's the way I've discovered all of
20 the USE_EXPAND variables. LINGUAS was the first, then I noticed
21 ALSA_CARDS, APACHE2_MODULES, XFCE_PLUGINS...
22
23 The default list can be found in,
24
25 /usr/portage/profiles/base/make.defaults

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