in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote martinko thusly... > > Norberto Meijome wrote: > > Hans Nieser wrote: > > > >>FreeBSD Prospect wrote: ... > >>What I am especially fond of in portage is the USE-flags and the > >>way you can specify then globally and individually for each > >>package and how you can get a nice, short overview of which > >>USE-flags a package uses and which of them are enabled with > >>"emerge -pv port". ... > there are global USE-flags in FreeBSD too and you also can > configure ports individually, but i'd agree that Gentoo way is > more transparent.
Those USE_* flags are for port creators/maintainers not users/installers; user use of, well, USE_* flags may get you in a trouble. OTOH, WITH_* & WITHOUT_* flags lie in user domain. - Parv -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
