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Just adding something. Since the package is already installed, you can type: |
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equery u net-print/hplip |
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It should give you a description of what each USE flag means. And it |
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works with every package. |
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If you get a command not found error, emerge gentoolkit to get the |
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equery program :) |
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Regards, |
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Raphael |
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2006/3/30, Teresa and Dale <teendale@×××××××××××××.com>: |
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> contiemilio@××××××××.it wrote: |
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> >USE flags doubts (again). |
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> > |
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> >If I run this command: |
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> > |
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> >emerge -pv hplip |
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> > |
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> >the output is: |
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> >[ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-0.9.7-r3 +X +cups +foomaticdb -ppds +qt |
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> >+scanner* -snmp +usb 0 kB |
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> > |
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> >There are 5 flags prefixed by a plus and red coloured (+X, +cups, +foomaticdb, |
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> >+qt and +usb). These flags are already set. Right? |
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> > |
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> > |
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> The plus sign means that it will be compiled with support for that |
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> flag. It means you can use that basically. |
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> >There are 2 flags prefixed by a menus and blue coloured (-ppds and -snmp). |
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> >These flags are not set. But, should I set them? |
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> > |
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> > |
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> It depends on whether you will use them or not. This is what that flag |
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> is for: "ppds - Adds support for automatically generated ppd (printing |
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> driver) files." If you need it, edit make.conf file and put it in the |
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> USE= line. The snmp is this: "snmp - Adds support for the Simple |
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> Network Management Protocol if available." You can get the same info |
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> from here: /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc |
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> >Finally there is anoter flag prefixed by a plus and green coloured |
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> >(+scanner*). What does the trailing * mean? What does the green colour mean? |
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> >Thank you a lot in advance. |
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> > |
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> >emilio |
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> If I recall correctly, that * means it has been changed since the |
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> program was instaled. If you changed some flags recently, you may want |
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> to do a emerge -Nvp world to see what else has changed. If everything |
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> looks OK, take off the p and let it recompile those for you so it will |
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> work correctly. |
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> Hope that helps. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) |
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