Holly Bostick wrote: >the 'help' screen you're talking about is part of the kernel. Removing >it doesn't remove internal help, like the kernel help, or man and info >pages-- those are *required*, and options subject to USE flags are >*optional*. > >But if it will help, I don't use the "doc" flag either: > > [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14 -build >-doc +symlink (-ultra1) 38,399 kB > >And my kernel help works fine. > >And what you're talking about w.r.t the overriding of USE flags is not >'a new thing' (though it may be new to you :-) ), it's a Portage feature. > >
It is new to me, I had to create it. >You can create a file, called /etc/portage/package.use, which contains >such overrides; here's a snippet of mine: ><snip> >dev-java/blackdown-jdk mozilla >dev-java/sun-jre-bin mozilla > > Thanks for the examples. *That* helps me a lot. Reading man pages without examples does very little if anything at all for me. I learn by doing or seeing examples and understanding how they work and what they mean. For those that need to see it in use like me, I added this to my /etc/portage/package.use file: >sys-kernel/gentoo-sources -doc > I then emerged gentoo-sources which was trying to pull in xmlto in the first place. It installed with no errors and xmlto is no longer needed. Thanks for the help guys, and Holly. I assume Holly is the only lady in the house. o_O Dale -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
