Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with installation kde-meta, gnome

[Dale]

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> On Saturday 20 of February 2010 03:56:32 Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
>
>
>> If I understand you correctly, then you only set useflags when you invoke
>> emerge? As in "USE="foo" emerge foobar". Is this how you're doing it or am
>> I just misunderstanding?
>>
> Yes and no.
>
> Yes, because I add a given flag to USE in /etc/make.conf. If emerge want it,
> when I do the following command:
> # emerge kde-meta
>
> After this command, emerge tell me that I must to use e.g. X,  so I add a
> given flag to USE="X jpeg png -debug" etc. to file /etc/make.conf.
>
> No, because I put it to /etc/make.conf, not as you show all in one line:
> # USE="X jpeg png -debug" emerge kde-meta
> I do not do as above line.
>
>
>> If it is how you're doing it, then I would suggest
>> that you start using your /etc/portage/package.use file instead (it doesn't
>> exist by default, you have to make the directory and the file) and add the
>> use flags you want for the package you're about to install. This way it'll
>> be a permanent useflag that isn't overwritten next time that specific
>> package needs an update.
>>
> Thank you for this hint :-)
>
>
>> Zeerak
>>
> Andrzej
>
>

Something that may help in the future, when you change the USE line in 
make.conf, you may want to add the -N option to your next emerge.  That 
tells portage to evaluate what, if anything, needs to be recompiled with 
the new USE flags.  Depending on the version of portage you are using, 
this could cause future builds to fail because of missing parts of other 
packages.

For me, when I sync and do my updates, I run emerge -uvDNa world.  It 
will at times compile a few extra packages but it does make for a more 
sane system.  It's almost as good as running emerge -e world.

Just a thought.

Dale

:-)  :-)