From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cleaner USE variable in /etc/make.conf
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:44:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060713094427.2e184560@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060712235635.GC9785@waltdnes.org>
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On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:56:36 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> This is a convenience thing for when I manually edit USE. That's all.
> I have this thing about commandlines/declarations/whatever that wrap
> around the edge of the screen.
You can use backslashes to continue the USE declaration over several
lines, but I do like your idea. Another possibility may be to put your
USE flags in a separate file, one per line with comments to label each
group, and put USE="$(grep -v ^# /etc/use.conf)" in make.conf.
--
Neil Bothwick
Miracle worker, Doctor! I'm a dammit, not a jim.. no, scratch that...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-13 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-11 11:04 [gentoo-user] Cleaner USE variable in /etc/make.conf Walter Dnes
2006-07-11 19:13 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2006-07-11 19:51 ` Michael Crute
2006-07-11 20:59 ` Dale
2006-07-12 12:52 ` Cláudio Henrique
2006-07-12 23:56 ` Walter Dnes
2006-07-13 8:44 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2006-07-13 19:29 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Kelly
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