On Saturday 15 April 2006 18:51, Duncan wrote: > man emerge, search on --noconfmem, or emerge --help. Both the usual > places one looks for documentation on command line options for a Unix > command cover it. That seems decent documentation to me, as I didn't > remember what the option was either as I've never needed to use it, but I > found it relatively quickly when I needed to, and had looked over the > manpage before when learning about emerge and portage, so was aware the > command existed if needed. > > While making this a feature so the user can change the default might be > debatable, the stated purpose and default seem sensible to me. > > Meanwhile, if you want that for your default, it's simple enough to do > with a shell alias, or using the new EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS var in make.conf.
I have looked through the manpage and emerge --help, can't believe that I overlooked it twice. Thanks for your help/reply!! Regards, Michiel. -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list