darren kirby wrote:
>quoth the Allan Spagnol Comar:
>
>
>>Jaap van Geffen wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 08:42 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi I am a new gentoo user and I got some doubts about the USE flags, I
>>>>know this question should be post allot and I apologize for that, but
>>>>I was wondering, I am not using any USE flags I got GNOME and ALSA on
>>>>my system; it will make any diference use then, or by not putting any
>>>>use flags it got all .....
>>>>
>>>>Sorry for the question, and thank you all.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Don't mind,but what's your question??
>>>
>>>
>>My question is if I build a system, like installing software and I do
>>not have setted any USE flags this will change the software, like I
>>emerge anjuta ( Development IDE for Gnome ) without gtk or gnome Flags
>>will make any diference ? If will make diference, how do I know what
>>flags each package need.
>>
>>Sory the poor english, but this are my doubts.
>>
>>Thank you. Allan
>>
>>
>
>Adding '-v' to your emerge commands will provide a list of what use flags each
>package can use, and how your currently set use flags relate to that.
>
>$ equery uses packagename
>
>will also display this info, as well as a brief description of what the flag
>does. Sometimes though, these sentences are not too descriptive. In any
>event, the surefire way to see what a use flag is doing is to look at the
>ebuild script.
>
>-d
>
>
this is helping a lot. Thank you.
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