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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:29 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote=
:
> I just tested this, and make.conf overrides iuse defaults. =C2=A0To verif=
y
> this for yourself, pick a package with an iuse default turning on a
> flag, then turn off the flag in make.conf and check what would happen if
> you emerged the package.
>
> package.use overrides for a single package, but make.conf overrides for
> all of your system.
>

This behaviour is controlled by the variable USE_ORDER. make.globals
sets this to:

USE_ORDER=3D"env:pkg:conf:defaults:pkginternal:env.d"


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~Nirbheek Chauhan

Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team