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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    RE: [gentoo-dev] USE settings for specific apps
From:       Taras <taras.glek () home ! com>
Date:       2001-11-27 20:06:07
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On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 08:21, Sean Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > > For my money I think that a command line switch to emerge/ebuild to
> > > turn certain USE variables on or off would be better. The idea that
> > > a user ALWAYS or NEVER wants to use a particular thing seems a bit
> > > rigid to me.
> > 
> > You can do this with BASH already.  just set the use variably as you
> > like it and then emerge.  or
> > 
> > % USE="foo bar baz" emerge foo/bar
> > 
> > I am not up on the syntax, but you can also use += or -= to remove
> > variables, I think.
> 
> That would work, but I'd rather see a non-shell specific like:
> 
> emerge --do-not-use=foo --do-not-use=bar --use=baz foo/bar
I think this is the best way of doing this. In other words, I seconds
this approach.

> Makes it easier for a GUI frontend too....
> 
> 
> Sean
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