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Date:      Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:10:26 -0500
From:      Parv <parv@pair.com>
To:        martinko <martinkov@pobox.sk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)
Message-ID:  <20060207221026.GC2946@holestein.holy.cow>
In-Reply-To: <dsav13$99q$1@sea.gmane.org>
References:  <200602071149.31772.mailings.freebsd@o0l0o.org> <43E88C64.40007@xs4all.nl> <43E8A7B3.3090707@meijome.net> <dsav13$99q$1@sea.gmane.org>

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in message <dsav13$99q$1@sea.gmane.org>, wrote martinko thusly...
>
> Norberto Meijome wrote:
> > Hans Nieser wrote:
> > 
> >>FreeBSD Prospect wrote:
...
> >>What I am especially fond of in portage is the USE-flags and the
> >>way you can specify then globally and individually for each
> >>package and how you can get a nice, short overview of which
> >>USE-flags a package uses and which of them are enabled with
> >>"emerge -pv port".
...
> there are global USE-flags in FreeBSD too and you also can
> configure ports individually, but i'd agree that Gentoo way is
> more transparent.

Those USE_* flags are for port creators/maintainers not
users/installers; user use of, well, USE_* flags may get you in a
trouble.  OTOH, WITH_* & WITHOUT_* flags lie in user domain.

  - Parv

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