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| -rw-r--r-- | cnf/make.conf | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/make.conf.5 | 7 |
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diff --git a/cnf/make.conf b/cnf/make.conf index 8b79e213a..23a0d9358 100644 --- a/cnf/make.conf +++ b/cnf/make.conf @@ -200,6 +200,11 @@ # are not filtered. #EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="" # +# INSTALL_MASK allows certain files to not be installed into your file system. +# This is useful when you wish to filter out a certain set of files from +# ever being installed, such as INSTALL.gz or TODO.gz +#INSTALL_MASK="" +# # MAKEOPTS provides extra options that may be passed to 'make' when a # program is compiled. Presently the only use is for specifying # the number of parallel makes (-j) to perform. The suggested number diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5 index 87aa510fd..2a509013d 100644 --- a/man/make.conf.5 +++ b/man/make.conf.5 @@ -281,6 +281,12 @@ These vars are used if the sources must be downloaded from the internet by \fBwget\fR(1). They are only required if you use a proxy server for internet access. .TP +\fBINSTALL_MASK\fR = \fI[space delimited list of file names]\fR +Use this variable if you want to selectively prevent certain files from being +copied into your file system tree. This does not work on symlinks, but only on +actual files. Useful if you wish to filter out files like HACKING.gz and +TODO.gz. +.TP .B MAKEOPTS Use this variable if you want to use parallel make. For example, if you have a dual\-processor system, set this variable to "\-j2" or "\-j3" for @@ -419,6 +425,7 @@ Please report bugs via http://bugs.gentoo.org/ Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> +Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@gentoo.org> .fi .SH "FILES" .TP |