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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