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On Wednesday 27 May 2009 04:23:13 Keith Dart wrote: |
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> On May 26, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Dale wrote: |
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> > Memorized all of what? Open a text editor and edit make.conf. What |
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> > do |
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> > you need to memorize? If you use KDE, you can edit them with kwrite |
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> > which is about as easy as it gets. Heck, I been using Gentoo for |
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> > years |
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> > and I don't recall ever using ufed. |
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> Editing make.conf is easy, knowing what to put in it is the hard part. |
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> what are all the possible flag names you can enter? There are |
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> hundreds. What do they all mean? How does enabling or disabling a |
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> particular use flag effect the build of all packages that use it? |
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> Which packages share a use flag? Which flags are mutually exclusive? |
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> Which ones are enabled by default, that you want disabled? |
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> There is much more involved than simply editing a file. |
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Yes, you normally also need to run euse as well |
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And the output of that command is everything your box knows about a flag short |
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of looking inside every ebuild |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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