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Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] USE settings for specific apps
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On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 09:42, Sean Mitchell wrote:
> 
> >     Some people have suggested that they would like to be 
> > able to set some
> > USE variables for specific apps.....examples escape me, but I 
> > know it has
> > been brought up.
>
> I don't like the idea of making app-specific settings in a global file. 

Agreed.

> 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.

Chad