Hi,

what does top post mean?

My fault. I new I read it somewhere but I did not spend enough time to
read everything.


http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=2&chap=2

Declare temporary USE flags

Sometimes you want to set a certain USE setting only once. Instead of
editing /etc/make.conf twice (to do and undo the USE changes) you can
just declare the USE variable as environment variable. Remember that,
when you re-emerge or update this application (either explicitly or as
part of a system update) your changes will be lost!

As an example we will temporarily remove java from the USE setting
during the installation of seamonkey.

Code Listing 2.5: Using USE as environment variable

# USE="-java" emerge seamonkey
   



Alan McKinnon schrieb:
> 1. Please don't top post
>
> 2. This is a very bad suggestion, as portage does not record the
> settings used. With the next upgrade of mplayer, especially if it's a
> deep world update, mplayer will be remerged with standard USE flags,
> modified by make.conf and package.use. This will potentially pull in
> unwanted ipv6 stuff for example.
>
> 'USE=<flags> emerge <options> <packages>' has been deprecated for a very
> long time now for these reasons.
>
>
>
> On Thursday 24 April 2008, KH wrote:
>  
>> USE="-ipv6 -ftp" emerge -av mplayer
>>  
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