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On 29/07/14 18:04, behrouz khosravi wrote: |
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> Hello everyone. |
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> I just concurred my fear and jumped to installing gentoo! |
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> So far so good! |
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> Before installing on my laptop and desktop, I am trying on virtual box |
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> and the system is running Fluxbox very good.(default profile) |
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> Now I am thinking about managing USE flags. |
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> What if I disable everything in the make.conf ( I mean USE="-*" ) and |
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> gradually add the needed flags to package.use? |
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> I am not trying to have severe control, I just want to expand my knowledge! |
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> thanks. |
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> |
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late to the conversation but no one else has mentioned, you might want |
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to take advantage of the newer way of doing use flags. |
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i.e. do not put them all in /etc/portage/make.conf |
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take advantage of the /etc/portage/package.use/ (you might need to |
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mkdir this) |
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in there you can put a single file per package requirements. |
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i.e. you try to emerge etherape, and it tells you that libgnomecanvas |
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requires use of glade |
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so cat the requirement into a file named by what requires it |
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$ cat /etc/portage/package.use/etherape |
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>=gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.30.3 glade |
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this also works for package.keywords etc |
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this means that you can more easily keep track of which use flags are |
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for which programs: |
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$ ls /etc/portage/package.use/ |
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chromium efl freemind teamviewer transmission |
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compiz etherape gvfs terminator vinagre |
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darktable filemangler networkmanager thunar virtualbox |
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dvdrip firefox stellarium thunderbird wpa_supplicant |
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hth |
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