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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge overide options
From: "Ryan Phillips" <ryan.phillips@csus.edu>
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This appears to work:

USE="-gtk -x ncurses" emerge vim
or
USE="-* ncurses" emerge vim

The later will ignore everything set by /etc/make.conf
but only include ncurses.

What is wrong with this method?

-ryan

> This idea hit me today at school and I wanted to get it to you guys as
> quickly  as possible. So without further APU here it is:
>
> emerge vim -o -gtk -x ncurses
>
> This would overide the current settings for gtk x and ncurses in the
> /etc/make.conf file.
>
> emerge vim -O ncurses
>
> What this would do is apply nothing but the ncurses use flag to the
> compile.
>
> What do you think, if you need me to elaborate I could.