On Wednesday 27 May 2009 04:23:13 Keith Dart wrote: > On May 26, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Dale wrote: > > Memorized all of what? Open a text editor and edit make.conf. What > > do > > you need to memorize? If you use KDE, you can edit them with kwrite > > which is about as easy as it gets. Heck, I been using Gentoo for > > years > > and I don't recall ever using ufed. > > Editing make.conf is easy, knowing what to put in it is the hard part. > what are all the possible flag names you can enter? There are > hundreds. What do they all mean? How does enabling or disabling a > particular use flag effect the build of all packages that use it? > Which packages share a use flag? Which flags are mutually exclusive? > Which ones are enabled by default, that you want disabled? > > There is much more involved than simply editing a file.
Yes, you normally also need to run euse as well And the output of that command is everything your box knows about a flag short of looking inside every ebuild -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
