On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:00:17AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:51:26 +1000, Amphibian wrote: > > > Should I be explicitly declaring flag or -flag in the make.conf for > > every possible flag? > > That would be unworkable as flags are added or removed. It would also > override and changes to the defaults without your knowing why. Get into > the habit of using -av with emerge. You'll son see when you need to make > changes to the flags.
I prefer to start off USE in /etc/make.conf with "-*", and then explicitly list the flags I want turned on. I also control a few packages with /etc/portage/package.use. This combines to give me full control over what's going on... that's the Gentoo spirit. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- [email protected] mailing list
