Alle 14:14, martedì 21 marzo 2006, Matthias Langer ha scritto: > On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 13:50 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, I am new on this list (and new of Gentoo). > > I have some doubts on the setting of the flag USE. > > I understood its features but I do not know WHEN use them. > > Some questions: > > 1 - Is it mandatory to set the Flag USE? > > 2 - If not, should I verify which flags to use for each package I want to > > install (using the --pretend and --verbose options of emerge) and then > > set USE accordingly? > > > > Bye > > emilio > > You should never do things like: > USE="some_flags" emerge some_package > > Instead you should configure a set of useflags you think are good for > your needs in general in make.conf. If you want to overide these > settings for a specific package do so by using /etc/portage/package.use. > > Just to give you an example, my make.conf contains this: > > USE="3dnow alsa bzlib gphoto2 apm jpeg mmx xine xmms zlib opengl > oggvorbis gnome gtk gtk2 > sse 3dnowext sqlite usb -emacs -flac -php -pyton -mysql -matrox > -kde -wxwindows -scanner -samba -yahoo -oci > -qt unicode evo mmxext dvdr -eds hal dbus firefox nvidia dvd > win32codecs > -firebird nsplugin -arts real flac theora vcd css -oss nautilus > cairo a52 avi dvdread divx4linux dv encode fame mpeg ogg > quicktime subtitles vorbis xvid nptl wma > -apache -apache2 fam -esd" > > You find documentation on the various gentoo use flags at: > http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml > > For example, to emerge dev-libs/boost with "+debug +doc +threads" on my > system, i did: > > # echo "dev-libs/boost debug doc threads" >> /etc/portage/package.use > # emerge -av boost > > By the why, if you think "emerge -s some_package" is slow, then > # emerge eix > This is a really nice tool for searching trough portage fast and with > very nice and informative output. Instead of > # emerge sync > you can do > # eix-sync > > HTH, > Matthias
The fog vanished. ;-)) Yhank you (Boyd Stephen too) emilio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
