Jeremy Olexa wrote: > > I would start with the defaults, eg. leave USE="" (blank) in make.conf > and then start editing package.use to modify them from there. type > emerge --info to see ALL of the use flags that are being used > > > -- > Jeremy Olexa > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Office: EE/CS 1-201 > CS/IT Systems Staff > University of Minnesota >
The way I always do is this, find what I want to install, in your case emerge -e world, and add the -vp option. It will then tell you what flags each package will use. I then go to /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc and find the flag, they are in alphabetical order, and see what it does and if I need it or not. If not, I add the flag with a - in front to disable it. If I see something it is not going to compile in that I need, I add it to my USE line. You can also use the package.use file in /etc/portage too. Then it will only apply to that specific package. Either way does the same thing but one is global and affects all packages while the other only affect that one package. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) Oh, if you are in comand line and need to scroll through the list, try this: "emerge -evp world | less" without the quotes of course. You can use the page up and down keys with that. Works here anyway. You can switch to another console to edit your USE line and use another to view the use.desc file. Do I make sense at all?? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
