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On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:29:39 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida |
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<jalmeida@××××××××××××.pt> wrote: |
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| I would like to know how the current USE variables are set. |
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| I know that "emerge --info" displays a list of all of them, but it |
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| doesn't discriminate where they come from. I couldn't find clear |
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| documentation about it, but of course I may have missed something. |
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| In the same line, I find /etc/make.profile/make.defaults _very |
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| strange_. "perl"? Sure. "fortran"? Well, who knows... But "emboss"?! |
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| (In case it doesn't ring a bell immediately: emboss - Adds support for |
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| the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite) |
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| Could this be a joke? |
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Uh, no. USE flags do not control whether packages get installed. They |
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control whether something which has **optional** support will use it. |
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So, for things with optional emboss support, by default the emboss |
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support will be enabled. Which makes sense, because if you're |
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installing science apps, you'll probably want it, and if you're not |
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installing science apps you'll never see it anyway. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |