On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:49:42 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > nome-control-center-3.6.3-r1.ebuild contains > > IUSE="+bluetooth +colord +cups +gnome-online-accounts +i18n > input_devices_wacom kerberos +networkmanager +socialweb systemd v4l" > > and > > COMMON_DEPEND=" > ... > networkmanager? ( > >=gnome-extra/nm-applet-0.9.1.90 > >=net-misc/networkmanager-0.8.997 ) > > I believe the first says that "if the networkmanager use flag is neither > set nor unset, treat it as set" and the second says > "if the use flag is set (or treated as set), require > net-misc/networkmanager".
That's correct. The + just means it defaults to on, instead of the usual off default for USE flags. > I don't see how to have the flag "unset" since its default is "set". > For example, editing make.conf to add > > USE="-networkmanager" > > (I had no USE in make.conf previously) has no effect That should do exactly what you want, although you can do it in /etc/portage/package.use too (although that makes no sense in this case as the decision on which network manager to use must be global). Are you sure that you have spelled the USE flag correctly, that one has wasted significant chunks of my life before now 9and will probably do so again in the future). > since networkmanager was not in USE before. This is irrelevant. No USE flags are in make.conf until you put them there. -- Neil Bothwick In the begining, there was nothing. And God said "Let there be light" and there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it better.
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