Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

[James Skinner <james.skinner@gmail.com>]

Man. Is this thread really going to continue??

On 3/23/09, Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 18:58 -0500, Dale wrote:
>> Albert Hopkins wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 22:18 -0500, Dale wrote:
>> >
>> >> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:26:40 -0500, Dale wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>>> emerge -pvDu --reinstall changed-use @world
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> ??? Certainly a lot more typing. ;-)
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>> Use an alias and it's less typing.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>> Or add it to make.conf.  I think that would work too.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>> It would work, every time you called emerge, whether you wanted that
>> >>> option or not.I prefer to have  aliases for commands with options that
>> >>> I
>> >>> call often, but not every time.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >> I'm not real familiar with aliases but know what it is.  If you use the
>> >> alias method, how would you disable it for a one time run?
>> >>
>> >
>> > Uh.. you don't "disable" it.  You simply don't use the alias.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Oh, OK.  <Dale waves hand over head.>  If it is set up to add that
>> option, how do you tell it not to use it?
>
> Unless I'm misunderstanding something...
>
> It's not an "option". It's an alias.  If you have
>
>     $ alias myalias="emerge --foo --bar --baz"
>
> Then to use the alias you simply type
>
>     $ myalias
>
> If you don't want to use the alias, well, don't type it. I.e.
>
>     $ emerge --la --di --dah
>
> or
>
>     $ someotheralias
>
> Or perhaps you don't aren't understanding what shell aliases are?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_(command)
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