On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 23:32, M. Zuelsdorff wrote:
> No, I don't make use of "USE" at all, since it's one of the really annoying 
> parts of the Gentoo distribution. There are thousands of packages in the 
> portage tree but not a single line on which USE-var is related to which 
> package.

The logic was that if 'foo' is in USE, then support for 'foo' gets
build.  If 'foo' not in USE, then support for 'foo' gets disabled.

I think you really need to go and do some reading, and re-evaluate
your stance to using USE ...


Regards,

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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa