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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma teething problems - Part I
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:02:09
Message-Id: 6913507.WdmFLHTWWg@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma teething problems - Part I by Philip Webb
1 On Monday, 24 June 2019 15:53:04 BST Philip Webb wrote:
2 > 190624 Mick wrote:
3 > > On Monday, 24 June 2019 12:17:51 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
4 > >> On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:00:36 +0100, Mick wrote:
5 > >>> Could someone more knowledgeable in Plasma/KDE shenanigans please
6 > >>> explain how I can end up with a workable USB wireless dongle, which I
7 > >>> can enable/disable at will?
8 > >>
9 > >> Set USE="-wireless" for powerdevil
10 > >
11 > > Excellent! This is what I was looking for. Thank you Neil. :-)
12 >
13 > Finally, a good example of the value of 'USE-"-* ... "' in make.conf !
14 > I had no idea of any of this & don't need 'powerdevil',
15 > but the '-wireless' flag has been set all along anyway (grin).
16 >
17 > Yes, I know there are opposite cases too.
18
19 TBH the opposite cases must be overwhelmingly more that this one. If it were
20 a single package *and* you know which one it is, then it is easy to look at
21 its USE flags and make a call to affect its functionality. In my example here
22 I couldn't see the wood for the Plasma/KDE trees, until Neil pointed the
23 particular tree I should be barking under ... :-)
24
25 I still wouldn't apply a 'USE-"-* ... "' approach unless I was looking for a
26 way to spend many hours contemplating the causes of breaking stuff and then
27 breaking them again after an update/upgrade.
28
29 --
30 Regards,
31
32 Mick

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