From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Llwf0-0004v4-BX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:46:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9316E0295; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:46:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.153]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9B71E0295 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:46:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so1590613ywm.46 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:46:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=RtBPmJPUtQLoJjRk/hJZL/77lFIvxMRYQQN2eapjmyY=; b=RGeYvb3VKLmisC6cAOeTGlRMGt2gw5FVwqBRCbVSCFf14B6xooKhSUmDAvYn15ysh8 vFcIIx+xgg2zfrP/PmjLZO1jM9lsgJ1bDlh1ZiAbAeODQC4jjHO2jAsBPOi29KQDtVrb yYE/iJSzFKuehBgWuNEusFmDs7XedNvaKKV30= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=xzEE0YXDTJnDbxs0PMLRyCEMKozOqqdGNvmbOclUCE8TINrFBPQZ/oROh4tJMH4GIs PuKC/5MiSX4G6dqBQYobXHjiWPoj1c9U7ST5tYjw4gfD6MyE/5kRT/kuHQk3jXDIFEtI 1n8XVi4ZNOR1+5Ez4Ml3NgyOVJ4JoZrnv8MnM= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.153.7 with SMTP id a7mr12805908ybe.244.1237862775481; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:46:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1237862045.4298.8.camel@blackwidow.nbk> References: <200903211917.56523.mdiehl@diehlnet.com> <20090322204520.0911c480@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <5bdc1c8b0903221502w13c6a31chfe638acfd4588044@mail.gmail.com> <20090322230221.20380328@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <49C6D740.504@gmail.com> <20090323005312.49bd7dd5@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <49C6FF71.3010309@gmail.com> <1237779541.4874.1.camel@blackwidow.nbk> <49C82224.7000502@gmail.com> <1237862045.4298.8.camel@blackwidow.nbk> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:46:15 -0400 Message-ID: <1ff2d1450903231946y4052a7ch79931f4c40a3940@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on? From: James Skinner To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6f6dbb77-ad9d-4709-a734-89c503feae00 X-Archives-Hash: 909a5639b4ac527e674a93ebecd3dde0 Man. Is this thread really going to continue?? On 3/23/09, Albert Hopkins 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. 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) > > > > -- Sent from my mobile device James Skinner james.skinner@gmail.com