On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:43:38PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:

> Yeah, I just wish they would invest in something like portage for those
> people who want an emacs without X or other things which would be nice if
> you could have the system recompile certain packages to your specs rather
> than depending on the way the maintainer builds the default package.

OpenBSD added FLAVORS and MULTI_PACKAGES to *BSD ports to solve such
"problems".  http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bsd.port.mk

> Under Gentoo, all of those various optional features would be represented
> by one of Gentoo's various USE flags, and those which were desired would
> be included.  Those which were not would not be.

But, if one emerges a binary package on Gentoo that was built on
another machine (that have different USE settings), will it know what
packages the binary package depends on?

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