Re: [gentoo-dev] Emerge/qpkg suggestions

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

On 22 Mar 2002 11:19:15 -0600
Joe Tennies <rotund@××××××××.com> wrote:

> I've been using Gentoo for a couple months now.  Let me just say "I LOVE
> IT!"  It is by far the fastest running Linux system I've had.  I also
> love that it is typically pretty up-to-date on packages.  I do have a
> couple concerns though.
>
> Hopefully my concerns have not been dealt with, and I just haven't
> realized how to do these things yet.
> Here's my list of suggestions:
> * A --use-flags on either emerge or qpkg.  This would display which
> flags are used by a .ebuild.  Then you can tell what things MAY be built
> into a package. (For instance, I probably DON'T need 10 programs to
> display AVIs.)

This is sadly infeasible at this stage. A work-around may be implemented
if you make a bug out of it in bugs.gentoo.org

> * A simple way to do a per package enable/disable of certain USE flags
> when you build a program.  (I like something like +avi -qt or something
> like that, but I don't think it would work with the way it is set up.)

With the most recent (masked) versions of Portage, this is possible, using
USE="-avi +qt" emerge media-video/mplayer
 

Karl T