That worked flawlessly. Thank you very much.
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 05:15 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 April 2007 17:58:27 Richard Marz wrote:
> > It is it possible to glob an entire subdirectory in package.use. I'm
> > trying to stop portage from using the doc flag when installing java
> > development suites. I tried adding the following to my package.use file:
> > dev-java/* -doc
> > Then ran `emerge -uD world` and it attempted to download the jdk doc
> > file which totally stopped the whole update process half-way because the
> > ebuild doesn't support that because of possible licensing issues. Is
> > there any globbing allowed in the package.use file.
>
> Nope. That leaves you two options that I'm aware of:
>
> 1) Adding all packages currently in dev-java:
>
> # { echo "# disable doc for all packages in dev-java" && \
> cd $(portageq portdir) && find dev-java -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d |
> \
> sed 's/$/ -doc/'; } >> /etc/portage/package.use
>
> 2) Switching to Paludis which does support wildcards (currently only in the
> -scm
> version): http://ciaranm.org/show_post/114
>
> If you go with 2) make sure to read the Paludis docs and faq at paludis.org...
>
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