On Saturday 06 October 2007 21:01:06 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Do you need the doc USE flag? Unless you are coding with the package, > > > you normally do not need it. The flag enables extra documentation, > > > not the standard man/info pages. > > > > It was a mistake when I started use gentoo at the very beginning, now > > if I remove the "doc" USE flag globally, most of the packages in my > > system will need a rebuild, and that's take a very long time. > > You could set it in /etc/portage/package.use for individual packages as > they come up for upgrade, then change it globally and rebuild when you > have the time. It's not as though the system can't be used while emerging > and not all packages use this flag anyway.
Or he could stop using --newuse for a while... -- Bo Andresen
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