[gentoo-user] Re: confessions of a current USE=*

2016-04-15 Thread »Q«
On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:06:18 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 15/04/2016 13:15, Philip Webb wrote: > > I'm persisting with '-*', but I've never understood profiles > > & I've never done 'emerge world' without '-p', > > so I've always had detailed control over what it getting installed. > > In my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: confessions of a current USE=*

2016-04-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/04/2016 13:15, Philip Webb wrote: > 160414 waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: >> I used to use USE='-* blah blah blah". My rule of thumb was to compare >> * how many "foobar" entries I'd have to make in package.use, >> if I didn't include "foobar" in make.conf, versus >> * how many "-foobar" entri

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: confessions of a current USE=*

2016-04-15 Thread Philip Webb
160414 waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > I used to use USE='-* blah blah blah". My rule of thumb was to compare > * how many "foobar" entries I'd have to make in package.use, > if I didn't include "foobar" in make.conf, versus > * how many "-foobar" entries I'd have to make in package.use, > if I did