Re: [gentoo-user] nagging USE flag question

2009-05-19 Thread Kevin Coetzee
Ric de France wrote: 2009/5/19 Kevin Coetzee kdcoet...@gmail.com mailto:kdcoet...@gmail.com Adam Carter wrote: The time has come to edit make.conf on my new gentoo-netbook. But one thing has always bothered me: What's the point of specifying a

[gentoo-user] nagging USE flag question

2009-05-18 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, The time has come to edit make.conf on my new gentoo-netbook. But one thing has always bothered me: What's the point of specifying a *negative* flag with a hyphen? Why not just leave the flags you don't use out of the file entirely? In a related matter, is there a paludis equivalent

RE: [gentoo-user] nagging USE flag question

2009-05-18 Thread Adam Carter
The time has come to edit make.conf on my new gentoo-netbook. But one thing has always bothered me: What's the point of specifying a *negative* flag with a hyphen? Why not just leave the flags you don't use out of the file entirely? Some flags are on by default, so this stops their use.

Re: [gentoo-user] nagging USE flag question

2009-05-18 Thread Kevin Coetzee
Adam Carter wrote: The time has come to edit make.conf on my new gentoo-netbook. But one thing has always bothered me: What's the point of specifying a *negative* flag with a hyphen? Why not just leave the flags you don't use out of the file entirely? Some flags are on by default, so this

Re: [gentoo-user] nagging USE flag question

2009-05-18 Thread Ric de France
2009/5/19 Kevin Coetzee kdcoet...@gmail.com Adam Carter wrote: The time has come to edit make.conf on my new gentoo-netbook. But one thing has always bothered me: What's the point of specifying a *negative* flag with a hyphen? Why not just leave the flags you don't use out of the file