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Ric de France wrote: |
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> 2009/5/19 Kevin Coetzee <kdcoetzee@×××××.com <mailto:kdcoetzee@×××××.com>> |
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> Adam Carter wrote: |
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> The time has come to edit make.conf on my new gentoo-netbook. |
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> But one thing has always bothered me: What's the point of |
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> specifying a *negative* flag with a hyphen? Why not just |
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> leave the flags you don't use out of the file entirely? |
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> Some flags are on by default, so this stops their use. |
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> example, I use openbox , so don't need gnome or kde support. |
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> I haven't got access to my Gentoo box, but from memory, |
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> /etc/make.profile I think is a symbolic link to another file that |
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> contains all the default make flags. One way to determine the flags is |
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> running: |
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/usr/portage/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults |
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> $ emerge --info |
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> It should list the USE-flags on your system, allowing you to find out |
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> any extras that may have been set that you may want to "-" away. |
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> HTH... |
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> ...Ric |
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> Ric de France |
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> Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) |
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> ==> Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gentoooo-hooo!! <== |
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> ==> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml <== |
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Kevin Coetzee |
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