On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:09:14 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > You will develop your way of doing things over time, and that way > > could change as your needs do. Using your example of package.use, > > moving USE flags from package.use to make.conf is an easy enough task > > if you need to change. I tend to put them n package.use to start with > > then migrate to make.conf if I find I am using the same flag on > > several packages. > > A simple way to start off is to see whether the USE flag is listed in > /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc or use.local.desc. If the former, it's > likely to affect many packages in a typical system so put it in > make.conf; if the latter, it's likely to affect only a few of your > packages so put it in package.use. You can always move it later if you > want to, as Neil says.
app-portage/euses is an easy way of looking up USE flags, give it the name of a flag and it shows you the description. If it shows one or more package names, the USE flag is defined in local.desc. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 33: American history
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