Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers
Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 08:36:23
Message-Id: 2637858.mvXUDI8C0e@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers by Wol
1 On Wednesday, 18 May 2022 22:26:44 BST Wol wrote:
2 > On 18/05/2022 15:22, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > Somewhere around here I said I had too many USE flag staatements
4 > > under/etc/
5 > > portage, so I removed package.use and just set whatever flags were needed
6 > > to install all my packages.
7 >
8 > If you make package.use a directory, you can do what I do, and try to
9 > have one file in package.use for each package I actually want installed.
10 > And if you qualify the packages with "current version" however you do
11 > that, then they'll expire regularly so you're forced to keep it
12 > up-to-date :-)
13
14 Yes, I do the same. I did wonder at the large number of files under
15 package.use, though, which is why I thought it a good idea to prune them a
16 bit. The consequences just spread further than I expected. :(
17
18 --
19 Regards,
20 Peter.