On Monday, 5 August 2024 17:51:38 BST Waldo Lemmer wrote: > Hi Peter, > > You seem to have misplaced a double-quote. It should be: > > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="${EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS} --usepkg-exclude > 'dev-lang/yasm"' emerge -1 yasm
Actually, your 'dev-lang/yasm"' should have been 'dev-lang/yasm'", but I take the point. My careless editing. > Though I don't understand why you dont't just pass the option to emerge > directly: > > emerge -1 --usepkg-exclude 'dev-lang/yasm" yasm I didn't know I could do that. > `${EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS}` isn't defined in your shell anyway, so that part > of your command evaluated to nothing. Thanks Waldo. -- Regards, Peter.