[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >USE flags doubts (again). > >If I run this command: > >emerge -pv hplip > >the output is: >[ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-0.9.7-r3 +X +cups +foomaticdb -ppds +qt >+scanner* -snmp +usb 0 kB > >There are 5 flags prefixed by a plus and red coloured (+X, +cups, +foomaticdb, >+qt and +usb). These flags are already set. Right? > >
The plus sign means that it will be compiled with support for that flag. It means you can use that basically. >There are 2 flags prefixed by a menus and blue coloured (-ppds and -snmp). >These flags are not set. But, should I set them? > > It depends on whether you will use them or not. This is what that flag is for: "ppds - Adds support for automatically generated ppd (printing driver) files." If you need it, edit make.conf file and put it in the USE= line. The snmp is this: "snmp - Adds support for the Simple Network Management Protocol if available." You can get the same info from here: /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc >Finally there is anoter flag prefixed by a plus and green coloured >(+scanner*). What does the trailing * mean? What does the green colour mean? > >Thank you a lot in advance. > >emilio > > > If I recall correctly, that * means it has been changed since the program was instaled. If you changed some flags recently, you may want to do a emerge -Nvp world to see what else has changed. If everything looks OK, take off the p and let it recompile those for you so it will work correctly. Hope that helps. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
