On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 22:18 -0500, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:26:40 -0500, Dale wrote: > > > > > >>>> emerge -pvDu --reinstall changed-use @world > >>>> > >>>> ??? Certainly a lot more typing. ;-) > >>>> > > > > > >>> Use an alias and it's less typing. > >>> > > > > > >> Or add it to make.conf. I think that would work too. > >> > > > > It would work, every time you called emerge, whether you wanted that > > option or not.I prefer to have aliases for commands with options that I > > call often, but not every time. > > > > > > > > I'm not real familiar with aliases but know what it is. If you use the > alias method, how would you disable it for a one time run?
Uh.. you don't "disable" it. You simply don't use the alias.