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From: Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@××××.nl>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:58:03
Message-Id: 200601302250.03334.harmgeerts@home.nl
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do? by Simon Kellett
1 On Monday 30 January 2006 22:16, Simon Kellett wrote:
2 > Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> writes:
3 > > Any changed flags will have a * after them.
4 >
5 > I thought that meant that the option was "auto-selected" for you (eg if
6 > the default for this ebuild is -perl, but you have perl installed it
7 > will change the default to +perl and put a * by it to warn you.
8 >
9 > Unfortunately man emerge does not help !!
10
11 man emerge (sys-apps/portage-2.1_pre4-r1)
12
13 [ebuild U ] sys-devel/distcc-2.16 [2.13-r1] USE="ipv6* -gtk -qt%"
14 Here we see that the make.conf variable USE affects how this package is
15 built. In this example, ipv6 optional support is enabled and both gtk and qt
16 support are disabled. The asterisk following ipv6 indicates that ipv6
17 support was disabled the last time this packages was installed. The
18 percent sign following qt indicates that the qt option has been added to the
19 package since it was last installed.
20
21 *Note: Flags that haven't changed since the last install are only displayed
22 when you use the --pretend and --verbose options.
23
24 Using the --quiet option will prevent all information from being displayed.
25 --
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[gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do? Simon Kellett <zoxed_c@×××××.de>