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 1QZsJQ-0008Je-KO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:23:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48C091C0ED; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:18:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED4801C0ED for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:18:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16729DEC7B for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:18:49 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VhPh4z8jD3qt for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:18:49 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E044CDEC23 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:18:48 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now? Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:18:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4E0167C4.9080100@gmail.com> <4E01CF99.1070109@gmail.com> <20110622132521.GA1771@gaurahari.merseine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20110622132521.GA1771@gaurahari.merseine.nu> 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 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106232318.48294.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5f10fb95f27f2335e3bc451babc5fc75 On Wednesday 22 June 2011 14:25:21 Indi wrote: > IMO the USE line in make.conf really should only contain the universal > stuff you can't live without, specifying everything else on a per > package basis is what makes it possible to run a system which is at once > full-featured and lean. My method is to put a USE flag into make.conf if it's described in use.desc; otherwise it goes into package.use if it's in use.local.desc. Seems to keep me out of trouble most of the time. -- Rgds Peter