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Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Paul Hartman |
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> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> Hi, |
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>>> I want to emerge a certain package, let's say x11-base/xorg-drivers, |
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>>> so I try first "emerge --pretend xorg-drivers" and find it has ~50 |
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>>> various use-flags (some set, some unset). Where can I find their |
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>>> description? For example "vmmouse", what is this USE flag good for? |
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>>> Is it something for vmware? |
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>>> I checked /etc/portage/profiles/use.desc and use.local.desc but |
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>>> there are not all of them... |
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>> I'm sure there are 10 ways of doing it, but this is what I use: |
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>> equery u x11-base/xorg-drivers |
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>> equery is part of app-portage/gentoolkit in case you don't have it |
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>> installed. It can do other useful things such as tell you which |
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>> package installed a file, or show all files installed by a package. |
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> And in the specific case of xorg-drivers those aren't USE flags at all |
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> but driver flags :) |
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But it beats having to type in each one of them separately with euse |
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-i. I like this little guy: |
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root@smoker / # equery u seamonkey |
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[ Searching for packages matching seamonkey... ] |
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[ Colour Code : set unset ] |
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[ Legend : Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ] |
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[ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ] |
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[ Found these USE variables for www-client/seamonkey-1.1.18 ] |
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U I |
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- - crypt : Add support for encryption -- using mcrypt or gpg |
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where applicable |
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- - debug : Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra |
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output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml |
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- - gnome : Adds GNOME support |
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+ + ipv6 : Adds support for IP version 6 |
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+ + java : Adds support for Java |
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+ + ldap : Adds LDAP support (Lightweight Directory Access |
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Protocol) |
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- - mozdevelop : Enable features for web developers (e.g. Venkman) |
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- - moznocompose : Disable building of mozilla's HTML editor component |
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- - moznoirc : Disable building of mozilla's IRC client |
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- - moznomail : Disable building mozilla's mail client |
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- - moznopango : Disable x11-libs/pango during runtime |
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- - moznoroaming : sroaming extension support |
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- - postgres : Adds support for the postgresql database |
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- - xforms : XForms is a standard to split up XHTML into XForms, |
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instance data, and user interface |
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- - xinerama : Add support for the xinerama X11 extension, which |
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allows you to stretch your display across multiple monitors |
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root@smoker / # |
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This is cool. Can emerge do this too? You know, maybe some flag to |
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have in addition to -p or -a and have it show this? Since I asked, |
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watch it do this in some nice shiney new version of portage. lol |
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Yep, another tool to add to frequent commands. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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