On 14 Mar 2003 15:11:48 +0000
Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks,
Makes some things more clear.
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 13:31, brett holcomb wrote:It is confusing. As I understand it if an ebuild needs things (such as gnome) it will compile with it anyway - despite what the USE variable says. The USE variable comes into play when you're building things that don't necessarily need something but you want to have it enabled it when built anyway. USE is like adding --with-someoption when doing the configure step in a non-ebuild environment.
For example, if something has to have Gnome then it will be compiled with whatever parts of Gnome it needs no matter what USE has in it. However, if an app has an option to be built with Gnome in case you want some features then the app will only be compiled with Gnome if the USE variable has it.
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