Re: [gentoo-user] Kicad and complications from hdf5 and vtk USE flags. Not package specific tho.

[Dale]

Hi Miles,

This install is likely over 10 years old.  I might add, I copied a lot
of things over from my previous system which was a AMD 2500+ single core
puter.  In a way, some things could be dating back to around 2003 or
2004.  I use eix-test-obsolete to clean up package.* files but there
isn't much to clean up make.conf except to do it by hand. 

That said, I disabled threads globally.  I also disabled a few other
things and enabled in package.use for those that really need it.  One
thing that confuses this, not all flags of one name does just one
thing.  It may do one thing for one package and another thing for other
package(s).  It makes things interesting.

I just got a nice clean emerge output while doing
kde-plasma/plasma-meta.  Once that is done, world is next but should be
little change.  I just hope old problems don't pop up again. 

I keep forgetting to try flaggie.  I tend to edit by hand.  Recently,
I've started including notes on some entries.  I tend to forget why
something is there, sometimes even just a week later.  :/

Thanks for the help.

Dale

:-)  :-) 


Miles Malone wrote:
> threads very rarely makes sense for anything, btw.
>
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 at 21:41, Miles Malone
> <m.malone@××××××××××××××××××.net> wrote:
>> Now for your own sanity you might consider stopping adding things
>> globally constantly, and using app-portage/flaggie to sanely manage
>> them per-package... Cause there's far more use flags that make sense
>> per-package than make sense globally.  I used to manage them all
>> largely globally like ten years ago, but it's utterly unrealistic to
>> do that today.
>>
>> On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 at 21:34, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 01:42:39 -0600, Dale wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> P. S.  Is there a tool to make the USE line in make.conf in alphabetical
>>>>> order or something?  When I add things, I try to put them in order so it
>>>>> is easier to find them.  For some reason, they are out of order, a lot.
>>>>> Something at some point messed up my organizing, badly.
>>>> emerge --info shows the flags in alphabetical order, whatever their order
>>>> in make.conf. It lso shows all flags, including those set b the profile,
>>>> so you can see exactly what portage is using.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- Neil Bothwick Deja Foobar: A feeling of having made the same
>>>> mistake before.
>>>
>>> Now that is cheating big time.  Why didn't I think of that?  Now they
>>> back in order.  I been cleaning up my USE line in make.conf.  I think
>>> some flags I added ages ago were only used by a few packages but are in
>>> wide use now, and I don't always need them.  So, I edit, run emerge
>>> -auDN world to see what blows up.  Edit again, run emerge and repeat.  I
>>> think I'm on about the 10th repeat now.  Slowly cleaning things up.
>>>
>>> I love the sig on this one.  How is it that thing knows which to pick?
>>> ROFL
>>>
>>> Thanks for the cheat, I mean tip.  Hit the nail on the head.
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>> :-)  :-)
>>>
>