From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EdBne-0005xK-9o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:21:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAIJKg1W019843; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:20:42 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAIJIx7k007846 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:18:59 GMT Received: from c-24-10-82-41.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([24.10.82.41] helo=phaenix.haell.com) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EdBlC-00005Q-PO for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:18:58 +0000 Received: by phaenix.haell.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5B8D923630C7; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:18:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:18:58 -0800 From: Drake Wyrm <wyrm@haell.com> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] punting the use.defaults feature Message-ID: <20051118191858.GA28166@phaenix.haell.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <951460691.20051118163308@gentoo.org> <20051118154312.GF24327@toucan.gentoo.org> <1726602389.20051118165931@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1726602389.20051118165931@gentoo.org> X-Arch: athlon_tbird-gentoo-linux-gnu X-Fnord: There is no conspiracy X-Fortune: One FISHWICH coming up!! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 72ad2d9a-5b46-4f26-9e19-455d6dfee741 X-Archives-Hash: c4ee19c64eac8dc9df97fee33b69b75c Jakub Moc <jakub@gentoo.org> wrote: > Well, I don't think so... If I want to enable a feature for one > specific ebuild and a USE flag in /etc/portage/package.use pulls in a > dep, that in turn enables that use flag globally, it's obviously not > what I intended and forces me to add yet another -flag into make.conf If you don't want portage to employ dark magic in guessing which use flags you want enabled, don't let it. Specify your use flags explicitly. Put USE="-* oneuse twouse reduse blueuse" in make.conf to set the globals, and _then_ start tweaking in "package.use". -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ A unix signature isn't a return address, it's the ASCII equivalent of ^ ^ a black velvet clown painting. It's a rectangle of carets surrounding ^ ^ a quote from a literary giant of weeniedom like Heinlein or Dr. Who. ^ ^ -- Chris Maeda ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list