On Saturday 09 September 2006 18:21, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> > On Saturday 09 September 2006 17:58, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> > > In the doc, which link you mentioned firs there is in Listing 5
> > > mentioned:
> > >
> > > USE="-java" emerge mozilla
[SNIP]
> >
> > Instead do:
> >
> > # echo www-client/mozilla -java >> /etc/portage/package.use
> >
> > # emerge -va mozilla
[SNIP]
>  no, I am not on the way to emerge mozilla...
>
>  I thought that on one hand the docs say:
>
>  use USE on the commandline
>
>  while the mailing list says
>
>  DONT use USE on the commandline -- its a very bad thing.
>
>  that only one of that above can be correct and the fact that both
>  there are may confuse users of gentoo more than absolutely needed.

Oh, it's been a while since I read those docs. Please read the text above Code 
Listing 5. There are occasions where even I use USE= on the command line 
because I really want the change to be very temporary. When we on the mailing 
list tell users to never do that it's because users mostly don't want it to 
be that temporary. Especially if they find this difference confusing... ;)

-- 
Bo Andresen