On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 05:26:14 -0800, Jorge Almeida wrote: > My current concrete example: gtk+ 3.* has a configuration option > --enable-debug=[no/minimum/yes] (default=debug_default) > > There is no USE variable to control this. From what I [think I] > understood, the default is set in the source file configure.ac, which > sets debug_default to "yes"! This has the effect that it is impossible > to launch gtk applications (e.g., zathura) from a terminal and still > do something useful with the terminal, which gets spammed no-end with > obnoxious messages about stuff the user cannot do anything about, > anyway.
As a short term solution, you can run the application with nohup. -- Neil Bothwick Loose bits sink chips.
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