On Sunday 12 Feb 2017 23:08:41 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 10:21:36AM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Something which will help is if you clear out as much of your USE > > > flags in make.conf and package.use as you can, before you run emerge > > > -e. > > > > You may have it there. Goodness knows how long they'd been there, being > > copied from one system to another, but I had pch, vaapi and vdpau in > > USE. I don't know how much difference pch makes in practice, but I'm > > running emerge > > -e world without those three. I'll let you know. This is USE now: > My standard recommendation for a use flag “manager” – ufed – helps in this > regard: it shows the description of flags in its flag table. And since > obsolete flags have no description, they are easily spotted.
Thanks Frank, but I just have a mini-script $ cat /usr/local/bin/gu #!/bin/bash grep -s --color=auto $1 $2 /usr/portage/profiles/use* The extra parameter is so's I can add a -w to grep. -- Regards Peter