Man. Is this thread really going to continue?? On 3/23/09, Albert Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 18:58 -0500, Dale wrote: >> Albert Hopkins wrote: >> > 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. >> > >> > >> > >> >> Oh, OK. <Dale waves hand over head.> If it is set up to add that >> option, how do you tell it not to use it? > > Unless I'm misunderstanding something... > > It's not an "option". It's an alias. If you have > > $ alias myalias="emerge --foo --bar --baz" > > Then to use the alias you simply type > > $ myalias > > If you don't want to use the alias, well, don't type it. I.e. > > $ emerge --la --di --dah > > or > > $ someotheralias > > Or perhaps you don't aren't understanding what shell aliases are? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_(command) > > > >
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