From: Sean Mitchell <SMitchell@phoenix-interactive.com>
To: "'gentoo-dev@gentoo.org'" <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] USE settings for specific apps
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:21:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23DFAA462CC6A64487613B0E242D9FF706EAF4@mercury.phoenix-interactive.com> (raw)
> > For my money I think that a command line switch to emerge/ebuild to
> > turn certain USE variables on or off would be better. The idea that
> > a user ALWAYS or NEVER wants to use a particular thing seems a bit
> > rigid to me.
>
> You can do this with BASH already. just set the use variably as you
> like it and then emerge. or
>
> % USE="foo bar baz" emerge foo/bar
>
> I am not up on the syntax, but you can also use += or -= to remove
> variables, I think.
That would work, but I'd rather see a non-shell specific like:
emerge --do-not-use=foo --do-not-use=bar --use=baz foo/bar
Makes it easier for a GUI frontend too....
Sean
next reply other threads:[~2001-11-26 16:21 UTC|newest]
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2001-11-26 16:21 Sean Mitchell [this message]
2001-11-27 20:06 ` [gentoo-dev] USE settings for specific apps Taras
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2001-11-26 14:42 Sean Mitchell
2001-11-26 15:09 ` Chad Huneycutt
2001-11-25 17:04 Tom von Schwerdtner
2001-11-25 19:33 ` Gontran
2001-11-25 21:02 ` Nathaniel Grady
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