On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:36:22 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > That would be unworkable as flags are added or removed. It would also > > override and changes to the defaults without your knowing why. Get > > into the habit of using -av with emerge. You'll son see when you need > > to make changes to the flags. > I prefer to start off USE in /etc/make.conf with "-*", and then > explicitly list the flags I want turned on. I also control a few > packages with /etc/portage/package.use. This combines to give me full > control over what's going on... that's the Gentoo spirit.
You could be adversely affected by missing new flags or when flags change names. I prefer to explicitly specify the flags I know I do or do not want and leave the rest to their defaults. emerge -uavDN world warns me iof there have been any changes affecting my installed packages. -- Neil Bothwick Earlier, I didn't have time to finish anything. This time I w
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