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From: Dave Nebinger <dnebinger@××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:12:30
Message-Id: 200510181555.51986.dnebinger@joat.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF? by Matias Grana
1 On Tuesday 18 October 2005 03:44 pm, Matias Grana wrote:
2 > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:41:24PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
3 > > motub-> useflag vim-with-x
4 > > /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:app-editors/vim:vim-with-x -
5 > > Linking console vim against X11 libraries to enable title and clipboard
6 > > features in xterm
7 >
8 > Aha! Now it seems that I have an old (or not so accurate)
9 > /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:
10 >
11 > /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:app-editors/vim:vim-with-x -
12 > Enables linking the console vim against X libs to enable some features
13 > in xterms
14
15 You're not out of sync, Holly is, possibly an upstream sync issue.
16
17 > This is why I neglected to see that clipboard and vim-with-x were
18 > related. But what I find confusing now is why I have this difference.
19 > How does one update the use.local.desc file? It seems not to belong to
20 > any package
21 > (tried "equery belongs /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc"
22 > and didn't get any answer).
23
24 This file is resynced when you 'emerge --sync'; it is not owned by a package
25 in portage. If you look at the timestamp of the file it should match the
26 date of your last sync.
27
28 For Holly's case, I'm wondering if she's syncing against a system that doesn't
29 mirror that file from upstream? Just a guess.
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Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF? Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>