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On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 07:26:34PM +0200, Olivier Crete wrote: |
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>> There is at least one other guy who thinks that the handbook has |
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>> gotten way too long (me)...And foser is right on choice, too much is |
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>> worst that too little, because you end up not being able to find out |
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>> howto where to configure stuff.. Gentoo is all about choice and choice |
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>> is good.. But I dont want to have to go thourhg 800 use flags before I |
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>> can install a gentoo system.. I used to be able to run ufed and set |
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>> all of the use flags that I wanted for a system... I tried doing that |
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>> yesterday.. the list has just gotten out of proportion. |
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> You don't have to; that's my point. Local USE flags are intended to |
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> allow very specific tweaking when you absolutely need it -- they're not |
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> intended to be something you go through and stick in make.conf on your |
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> original install. In fact, you probably shouldn't put them in |
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> make.conf -- they should probably be consistently used in package.use |
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> instead. |
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The problem is that the current version of ufed just has all of the local |
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use flags... It probably needs to be fixed... And we'd probably need to |
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fix ufed and euse to put local use flags into package.use instead of |
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make.conf... |
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But still, I dont really want ot have to enable every codec by hand when |
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compile any video related application... |
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Olivier Crete |
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