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I'm starting to feel more like this, WGT the use flags... when I |
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installed gentoo on a server here at work, I left the use flags alone, |
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figuring "hey it's a server" but then I noticed that certain packages |
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WANTED to install some rediculous amounts of optional requirements, so I |
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started using "-" use flags, and that seemed to work. Then I noticed |
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other packages building without supports for things I needed (like |
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CUPS). Anywya, after compiling and recompiling KDE about 3 times, mysql |
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twice, qt 3 times and a few utilities I started to think that before |
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installing a program, I'd rather just see the "configure --help" options |
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and decide what I wanted and what I didn't... this use flag business is |
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kinda trickie... I couldn't imagine trying to code to take it all into |
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account. Has there ever been talk to get rid of use flags and tackle |
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optional package params in a different way? |
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Riyad |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: M. Zuelsdorff [mailto:micha@×××××××.de] |
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> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 2:33 PM |
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> To: gentoo-dev@g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mplayer with dvdread |
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> |
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> |
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> No, I don't make use of "USE" at all, since it's one of the |
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> really annoying |
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> parts of the Gentoo distribution. There are thousands of |
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> packages in the |
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> portage tree but not a single line on which USE-var is |
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> related to which |
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> package. |
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> All I was able to find was: "dvd adds support for DvDs". |
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> Fine. I'd never |
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> thought that DvD support is disabled by default in a tool |
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> like Mplayer. And |
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> in fact it is NOT, when I get the tool from the mplayer site, |
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> directly. So, |
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> what is it worth this extra little fuzz? In the end, an |
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> experience like this |
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> can only lead to a blind "better enable everything" since no |
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> one is able to |
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> keep track of all bells and whistles each package comes with. |
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> And this way |
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> making the USE mimik more or less obsolete. |
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> |
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> Best regards. |
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> |
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> micha |
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> |
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> On Wednesday 09 April 2003 23:47, Martin Schlemmer wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 00:48, M. Zuelsdorff wrote: |
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> > > my experience with emerging Gentoo's Mplayer 0.90rc4 out |
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> of the box |
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> > > was: |
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> > > |
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> > > no DVD in the graphical menu. |
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> > > And Martin Schlemmer's "gmplayer -dvd 1" here ends with |
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> a: "MPlayer |
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> > > was compiled WITHOUT libdvdread support!" |
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> > > |
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> > > That's why I did another installation manually in /usr/local/... |
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> > > feeding configure with the appropriate parameters in |
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> advance. This |
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> > > version works. |
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> > |
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> > Did you have 'dvd' in USE ? If so, do: |
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> > |
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> > # emerge mplayer &> mplayer-build.log |
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> > |
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> > And mail me the log. |
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