On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 02:22:40 +0000 (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> Alan McKinnon posted on Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:00:57 +0200 as excerpted: > > > Why are you messing around with the profile anyway, when all the > > available documentation in many many places tells you to set your > > chosen USE for specific packages in package.use? > > I believe you missed his email address, @gentoo.org. =8^0 > > IOW, he's a dev, trying to actually set a profile setting for > others. But his own testing says it's not working, thus the question > (for which bkohler has provided an answer). > > /That/ is why he's messing with the profile, instead of setting his > chosen USE for that package in package.use. =:^) You're right, I did miss that. I'd just dealt with a backlog of unread mails in -user and didn't notice this thread is in -dev. My bad. It seems apologies to our devs are in order.
