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On Monday, 24 June 2019 15:53:04 BST Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 190624 Mick wrote: |
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> > On Monday, 24 June 2019 12:17:51 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> >> On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:00:36 +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> >>> Could someone more knowledgeable in Plasma/KDE shenanigans please |
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> >>> explain how I can end up with a workable USB wireless dongle, which I |
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> >>> can enable/disable at will? |
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> >> |
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> >> Set USE="-wireless" for powerdevil |
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> > Excellent! This is what I was looking for. Thank you Neil. :-) |
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> Finally, a good example of the value of 'USE-"-* ... "' in make.conf ! |
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> I had no idea of any of this & don't need 'powerdevil', |
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> but the '-wireless' flag has been set all along anyway (grin). |
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> Yes, I know there are opposite cases too. |
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TBH the opposite cases must be overwhelmingly more that this one. If it were |
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a single package *and* you know which one it is, then it is easy to look at |
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its USE flags and make a call to affect its functionality. In my example here |
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I couldn't see the wood for the Plasma/KDE trees, until Neil pointed the |
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particular tree I should be barking under ... :-) |
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I still wouldn't apply a 'USE-"-* ... "' approach unless I was looking for a |
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way to spend many hours contemplating the causes of breaking stuff and then |
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breaking them again after an update/upgrade. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |