On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 13:52:44 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > > Couldn't you have achieved the same with less effort with > > > > USE="-symlink" emerge world -blah
> Yes (qualified yes), but > > 1) I'm training myself out of changing USE flags on the command line > (though it would have been OK in this case, the reason I have a general > policy is to keep to it, not except it :-) ) Changing USE flags on the commands line generally is frowned uponi because the effect is transient, only affecting that one emerge. But this is exactly what is needed in this case. > =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r5 -symlink > > is actually valid, which is useful information, enabling me to turn the > USE flag off for just this one emerge, without disturbing later kernels > for which I want to keep the 'symlink' flag default enabled. Except it's not really "just this one emerge" but all emerges of that package and version, although the two are likely to coincide. > So yes, it would have been easier to do it the way you say, but I find > taking unexpected opportunities to explore the capabilities of Portage > more valuable than doing things the easy way (sometimes). Fair comment. -- Neil Bothwick Do radioactive cats have 18 half-lives?
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