[gentoo-dev] Re: ufed / USE-Flags Grouping Suggestion

[Sven Köhler]

> I have tried out ufed, but I find the following idiom much more useful:
>
> emerge -vp foo
> # If I see a flag I don't understand:
> equery uses foo
> USE='foo -bar' sudo emerge foo
>
> The point I am trying to make is that I do not find the current number of USE
> flags overwhelming, because I don't find the need (as some people seem to) to
> add every USE flag, global or otherwise, I ever encounter explicitly to my
> make.conf. I set a few of the major ones (i.e. USE='-X -gnome -gtk -kde -qt'
> on a server), and handle the rest as needed from the command line.

using USE-flags on the command-line is _very_ unsafe, since "emerge -upD 
world" and "emerge dpeclean" for example won't remember them - they will 
use the normal USE-flags again.


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