Zac Medico wrote: > 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.
why should it handle USE flags in any way? it just tels portage not to emerge the dependencie, whatever they are ( when added by use flags..) that means USE="alsa" emerge --nodeps mplayer would (try to) compile mplayer _with_ alsa support but in the case alsa-lib (which is an optional dep on the alsa use flag) is no installed, it will not emerge it (which can cause mplayer not to compile, or not to work...) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
