Subject: Re: Re: IUSE variable clarification
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Date: 2003-01-09 17:05:21 GMT (5 years, 38 weeks, 6 days, 10 hours and 40 minutes ago)
> The second one is correct I think. I think of IUSE as Interactive USE. > Interactive programs (eg Kportage) can read IUSE and immediately present the > user the applicable flags before starting an emerge. AFAIK there is no complete definition of what the name "IUSE" means, but I'm pretty sure it means just that: "I use". > So IUSE contains only the used USE settings, not the dependencies. Correct. -- Maik Schreiber, Gentoo Linux Developer * http://www.gentoo.org mailto:blizzy <at> gentoo.org GPG public key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x1F11D713 Key fingerprint: CF19 AFCE 6E3D 5443 9599 18B5 5640 1F11 D713