From: Zac Medico Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:51:28 +0000 (-0000) Subject: Add a note about negative IUSE default settings being ineffective given X-Git-Tag: v2.1.6_rc1~12 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ef0fddb9aec2a6448d97d820409d167badcb1af4;p=portage.git Add a note about negative IUSE default settings being ineffective given the default USE_ORDER setting which causes profile and user configuration settings to override them. (trunk r12057) svn path=/main/branches/2.1.6/; revision=12058 --- diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5 index a6eefabb9..1a6a867e0 100644 --- a/man/ebuild.5 +++ b/man/ebuild.5 @@ -180,7 +180,9 @@ arch related flags (see \fBKEYWORDS\fR). Beginning with \fBEAPI 1\fR, it is possible to prefix flags with + or - in order to create default settings that respectively enable or disable the corresponding \fBUSE\fR flags. For details about \fBUSE\fR flag stacking order, refer to the \fBUSE_ORDER\fR -variable in \fBmake.conf\fR(5). +variable in \fBmake.conf\fR(5). Given the default \fBUSE_ORDER\fR setting, +negative IUSE default settings are ineffective since profile and user +configuration settings override them. .TP \fBDEPEND\fR This should contain a list of all packages that are required for the