Zac Medico wrote: >>afterwards that I could have accomplished the same >>by: >> >>USE="*-" emerge -v perl >> > > > More drastic than my solution but it could be > necessary. I've seen USE="-*" more commonly but maybe > they're equivalent. I believe emerge --nodeps does > basically the same thing. >
no USE="-*" skips all optional dependencies (depending on a use flag) --nodeps skips ALL dependecies yoyo -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list