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On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:34:04 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote: |
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> Now I am thinking about managing USE flags. |
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> What if I disable everything in the make.conf ( I mean USE="-*" ) and |
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> gradually add the needed flags to package.use? |
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You may well break your system, but you get to keep the pieces as a |
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lesson. |
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Portage profiles set some default USE flags, then some ebuilds also set |
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defaults. Using USE="-*" disables all of these. You can see the defaults |
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by looking at the output from emerge --info with no USE defined in |
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make.conf. |
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> I am not trying to have severe control, I just want to expand my |
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> knowledge! |
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You will do that, but not in the way you hoped. Pick a profile that most |
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closely matches your usage and then find tune from that by adding or |
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removing USE flags. That's a lot easier than deliberately breaking things |
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and then trying to work out how to fix them. |
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Also, when setting up a new system, make USE flag changes gradually. |
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Unless you are sure of what you are doing, only change a few at a time. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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