YoYo Siska wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: > >>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
Yeah, now I'm curious how --nodeps handles USE flags. I suppose it should leave them as is. Generally, the only time I use --nodeps is when when I encounter strange dependency issues with binary packages. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
