On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:51:20 -0700, Ted Ozolins wrote: > I ran into the same glitch on a new system. The only way I was able to > get around that was to blank out my USE= in /etc/make.conf. I realized > afterwards that I could have accomplished the same by: > > USE="*-" emerge -v perl
They aren't the same thing. Commenting out the USE declaration in make.conf makes portage use the default USE flags from your profile. USE="-*" overrides your profile and turns everything off. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 45: Resident alien
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