Now for your own sanity you might consider stopping adding things globally constantly, and using app-portage/flaggie to sanely manage them per-package... Cause there's far more use flags that make sense per-package than make sense globally. I used to manage them all largely globally like ten years ago, but it's utterly unrealistic to do that today.
On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 at 21:34, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 01:42:39 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > >> P. S. Is there a tool to make the USE line in make.conf in alphabetical > >> order or something? When I add things, I try to put them in order so it > >> is easier to find them. For some reason, they are out of order, a lot. > >> Something at some point messed up my organizing, badly. > > emerge --info shows the flags in alphabetical order, whatever their order > > in make.conf. It lso shows all flags, including those set b the profile, > > so you can see exactly what portage is using. > > > > > > -- Neil Bothwick Deja Foobar: A feeling of having made the same > > mistake before. > > > Now that is cheating big time. Why didn't I think of that? Now they > back in order. I been cleaning up my USE line in make.conf. I think > some flags I added ages ago were only used by a few packages but are in > wide use now, and I don't always need them. So, I edit, run emerge > -auDN world to see what blows up. Edit again, run emerge and repeat. I > think I'm on about the 10th repeat now. Slowly cleaning things up. > > I love the sig on this one. How is it that thing knows which to pick? > ROFL > > Thanks for the cheat, I mean tip. Hit the nail on the head. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
