Re: [gentoo-user] Kicad and complications from hdf5 and vtk USE flags. Not package specific tho.

[Miles Malone]

Now for your own sanity you might consider stopping adding things
globally constantly, and using app-portage/flaggie to sanely manage
them per-package... Cause there's far more use flags that make sense
per-package than make sense globally.  I used to manage them all
largely globally like ten years ago, but it's utterly unrealistic to
do that today.

On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 at 21:34, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 01:42:39 -0600, Dale wrote:
> >
> >> P. S.  Is there a tool to make the USE line in make.conf in alphabetical
> >> order or something?  When I add things, I try to put them in order so it
> >> is easier to find them.  For some reason, they are out of order, a lot.
> >> Something at some point messed up my organizing, badly.
> > emerge --info shows the flags in alphabetical order, whatever their order
> > in make.conf. It lso shows all flags, including those set b the profile,
> > so you can see exactly what portage is using.
> >
> >
> > -- Neil Bothwick Deja Foobar: A feeling of having made the same
> > mistake before.
>
>
> Now that is cheating big time.  Why didn't I think of that?  Now they
> back in order.  I been cleaning up my USE line in make.conf.  I think
> some flags I added ages ago were only used by a few packages but are in
> wide use now, and I don't always need them.  So, I edit, run emerge
> -auDN world to see what blows up.  Edit again, run emerge and repeat.  I
> think I'm on about the 10th repeat now.  Slowly cleaning things up.
>
> I love the sig on this one.  How is it that thing knows which to pick?
> ROFL
>
> Thanks for the cheat, I mean tip.  Hit the nail on the head.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>