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

[Miles Malone]

threads very rarely makes sense for anything, btw.

On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 at 21:41, Miles Malone
<m.malone@××××××××××××××××××.net> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> > :-)  :-)
> >