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On Sunday, 10 December 2006 20:05, Vlad Dogaru wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> First time poster, so if I mess up anything do tell me. I have been |
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> emerging packages and trimming the USE flags individually by adding USE=" " |
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> in front of the command. Is this bad practice or in any way different to |
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> adding the use flags in /etc/portage/packages.conf? If it is, is there a |
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> way of dumping all the use flags for all my currently installed ebuilds |
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> into packages.conf? |
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> Thanks in advance, |
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> Vlad |
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Yes this is very bad practice, which you'll notice if you try |
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running 'emerge -avuDN world' to update everything. |
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Put global USE flags in /etc/make.conf and package specific use flags |
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in /etc/portage/package.use |
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Read through man 5 portage. |
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Raymond Lewis Rebbeck |
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