Ferris McCormick wrote: > I hesitate to raise my head again, but why not use > FEATURES='-noman' emerge ... > > (FEATURES='-noman -noinfo -nodoc' USE='doc' emerge ... > for that matter.)? > > I use that sort of thing for, say, > FEATURES='-distcc ccache' MAKEOPTS='-j2'emerge ... > on some specific occasions, and it does what it looks like it should do.
That is of course always an option. But, I have a dream... That some day, some way, I will be able to control _everything_ I need relating to building and installing via USE flags and package.use. I don't think using _anything_ in the environment should ever be allowed because there is no way to track it during upgrades or automated building (catalyst, installing from pre-packaged binaries, for examples). Not to mention the environment is not exactly clean. Keeping track of the myriad of ways you can alter a package build/install is a headache, I would prefer it all be done through one consistent interface... From what I can tell, the use of FEATURES="noman nodoc noinfo" is being deprecated anyway. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
