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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tif libraries being ignored
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:39:54
Message-Id: 496B8E71.7040703@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] tif libraries being ignored by Ted Miller
1 Ted Miller wrote:
2 > Dale wrote:
3 >> Ted Miller wrote:
4 >> > Yes, I missed that, and it did the trick (after re-emerging 11
5 >> > packages, including kde-libs).
6 >> >
7 >> > Where was it hidden, that I missed it? Or is it just one of those
8 >> > things "you have to learn"? Seems like the tif package should add it,
9 >> > or tell me to consider adding it, when the package is installed.
10 >>
11 >>
12 >> Since you are new to Gentoo, use the -v and either -a or -p first.
13 > What command do I use those with -- emerge, euse? So far I learned
14 > about flags with equery.
15 >
16 > Ted Miller
17
18 That would be emerge. Sorry. Should have been more clear on that.
19 Should look something like this:
20
21 root@smoker / # emerge -pv gimp
22
23 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
24
25 Calculating dependencies... done!
26 [ebuild R ] media-gfx/gimp-2.4.6 USE="alsa curl dbus exif hal mmx
27 pdf png python sse svg tiff wmf -aalib (-altivec) -debug -doc -gnome
28 -gtkhtml -lcms -mng -smp" 0 kB
29
30 Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
31 root@smoker / #
32
33 You may want to consider using a profile that is most closely to what
34 you are doing. I think eselect is what most folks use to set theirs. I
35 do mine manually but may as well learn the right way while you are
36 learning. There are a few of them but desktop may be the one you want.
37 It has a lot of USE flags already enabled.
38
39 Dale
40
41 :-) :-)