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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:58:05 +0530
From: Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Switching off a long list of USE flags
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On 19/09/13 at 05:14pm, gevisz wrote:
> I would like to build sane-backend only for one specific scanner.
> 
> However, there are a huge lot of different USE flags for other scanners
> that are already switched on by default.
> 
> Is there any easy way to switch them off?
> 
> Something like:
> 
>           media-gfx/sane-backends -sane_backends* sane_backends_hp
> 
> Exactly that way does not work, but may be something like that...
> 
> ...instead of directly switching off every one of them.

you can try 

media-gfx/sane-backends -* sane_backends_hp <other flags you need>

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- Yohan Pereira

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