On Monday 15 September 2003 18:37, Joshua Banks wrote: > Hey Jason, > > What does -* do in the USE section of make.conf? Isn't that like saying > "don't use any variables".??
The USE declaration is parsed one word at a time. The first word (meaning string of chars separated by whitespace) is -*. When portage encounters it, portage clears all USE flags it's picked up from /etc/make.profile/make.defaults and wherever else. The shell still takes precedence over /etc/make.conf however. I've only done this because sometimes there are small changes to make.defaults which of course aren't advertised. Sometimes I use emerge depclean and this way I can be sure that nothing will break due to use flags (unless it's because of my own negligence). Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
