Zac Medico posted on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:39:12 -0800 as excerpted: > Maybe it would be enough to add a suggestion about --exclude in the > --newuse section of the emerge man page? I don't think this is confusing > enough to qualify for an interactive suggestion.
I'd find that exactly right, here. However, it could be argued that the various boilerplate "handholding" we're already doing has set the precedent. That's actually where I got the idea, after all. But I'm not going to argue it. I'd be more inclined to argue that we're already over the line in some places, and that if users really need this, they really should consider a different distribution as gentoo's obviously not right for them. So yeah, a mention of --exclude in the manpage's --newuse discussion sounds quite balanced, to me. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
