On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 23:25, Riyad Kalla wrote:
> After reading your email I found out what was causing my hearache
> (make.defaults)! I hadn't thought about checking that as I didn't
> realize the use flags were hierarchical in that fashion...
> 
> Does make.defaults include all of the use flags?

No, just ones we think is ok for a generic desktop system with nice
functionality ....

> If I modified
> make.defaults (I know you just said not to, but...) to either include
> nothing, or include everything, wouldn't I effectively be implementing
> the behavior I just asked for? And then fine tune it with my make.conf?
> 

If you do not just want to '-foo' the flags you do not want, do in
/etc/make.conf:

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USE="-* whatever_flags_you_want"
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Where the '-*' means to remove all the default USE flags.  Do not
edit make.default directly ....


Regards,

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