Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: use flags -> use options

[Drake Wyrm <wyrm@haell.com>]

Jan Kundr?t <jkt@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Tobias Klausmann wrote:
> > For those apps that need an editor, one could think of editor=vim.
> 
> USE flag change usually triggers a rebuild of the package in question. I
> certainly don't want to rebuild packages just because I switch $EDITOR.

If there's a compile-time dependency on an editor, usually meaning that
the path to an editor is hardcoded into some binary, then you most
certainly _do_ want to recompile when you switch the system editor.
Otherwise, those packages will fail when you remove the old editor.

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