On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 05:53:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 16:37 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Indi did opine > thusly: > > > > > True, just be aware that if you enable gtk *globally* you will end up > > building the gtk interface for absolutely everything which has that > > option. > > Far better (IMO, YMMV) is to use /etc/portage/package.use specify such > > things per package. Unless, of course, you like having a gtk GUI for > > everything. > > > > :) > > No, it is much better to enable such a flag globally and *disable* it using > package.use where you do *not* want it. > > Personally, I have better things to do than examine every new or changed > package that shows up after avuND world and edit package.us for every single > flag in that huge list. >
Sounds like the old "6 of one, a half-dozen of the other" to me... What makes the subtractive method better? -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫
