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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what does the "USE flags" section of the packages.gentoo.org/package page mean?
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 20:47:46
Message-Id: 20191216204737.32697b03@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] what does the "USE flags" section of the packages.gentoo.org/package page mean? by Jack
1 On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:33:21 -0500, Jack wrote:
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3 > > Am I going to have to rebuild imagemagick for every file type I
4 > > encounter?
5 > Probably yes. As far as I can tell, the only safe way to see what USE
6 > flags apply to a package is to either look in the ebuild, or do "eix
7 > package." (Mick beat me to it on finding that.)
8
9 eix reports USE flags for all versions in the tree, so this is only
10 useful for a specific version if that version is already installed.
11 Looking at IUSE in the ebuild does work, as does "emerge -pv package".
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15 Neil Bothwick
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17 Genius is 99% inspiration and 2% arithmetic

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