Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > You have it wrong.
A not unusual state of affairs for me, I'll admit. After several yrs on gentoo... I still don't understand fully the use of the USE flags. > "USE=<thing>" is supposed to add *support* for <thing>, not > necessarily *install* something called <thing>. Whatever <thing> > means in the context of a specific ebuild depends on what the ebuild > is for, and different ebuilds with the same USE flag may have > entirely different DEPEND stanzas, depending on how the package is > written and what it needs to build/run. But wouldn't having the gnome use flag active cause updates to pull in stuff that may not be necessary for the one or two gnome based tools $user wants?
