On 01/19/2012 07:33 PM, Duncan wrote: > However, it could be argued that the various boilerplate "handholding" > we're already doing has set the precedent. That's actually where I got > the idea, after all. But I'm not going to argue it. I'd be more > inclined to argue that we're already over the line in some places, and > that if users really need this, they really should consider a different > distribution as gentoo's obviously not right for them.
If they don't recognize the connection between --newuse and rebuilds, then I think it's pretty clear that they need to spend some time with the man page to learn the meanings of the options that they're using. > So yeah, a mention of --exclude in the manpage's --newuse discussion > sounds quite balanced, to me. =:^) http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=b6c51afdaa69eb648cd71e07c880051bf734b8cd -- Thanks, Zac
