Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

[Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> You influence it, by setting USE flags. I'd guess, that "doc"
>> would be the USE flag you're looking for. So, put something
>> like
>>
>> dev-db/mysql	doc
>>
>> to /etc/portage/package.use:
>>
>> echo dev-db/mysql doc >> /etc/portage/package.use
> 
> Just looking at emerge --pretend after setting that I'm confused by
> the output:

Me too. Seems that the system didn't get that change.
Please send output of:

grep dev-db/mysql /etc/portage/package.use

> Note that doc has the - sign and readline has +, shouldn't doc have
> come up without minus.  

Yes.

> 
> Then when I actually run the emerge the compile flags are not altered
> one whit,

Of course not. Wouldn't have expected.

Alexander Skwar
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