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On 02/27/2016 07:18 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Saturday 27 February 2016 14:58:25 I wrote: |
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>> On Saturday 27 February 2016 12:51:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>>> On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 11:35:02 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>>>> I think I know the answer already, but is there any way to install |
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>>>> www- |
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>>>> client/chromium without all the bloat? I don't see any need here for |
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>>>> any of these: |
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>>>> app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher |
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>>>> app-accessibility/espeak |
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>>>> media-sound/sox |
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>>>> media-libs/libsndfile |
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>>>> media-libs/speex |
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>>>> |
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>>>> ...but they aren't controlled, or even affected, by USE flags. And why |
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>>>> two versions of dev-python/beautifulsoup? |
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>>> Looking at the ebuild, speech-dispatcher is required is you do not have |
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>>> USE="gn", the rest aren't mentioned and are probably dependencies of |
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>>> speech-dispatcher. |
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>> That looked promising until I noticed "(-gn)" in USE when I said emerge |
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>> -pv chromium. So of course setting it in package.use didn't help. |
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> Where are these punctuation marks documented, anyway? I've looked in various |
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> man pages and even the portage/output.py file under /usr/lib. Google didn't |
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> help either. |
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> |
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The brackets mean the USE flag is forced, masked or removed. |
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(if you want to jump to the section in `man emerge` search for () using |
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"/\(\)" as searching for verbose or -v shows results everywhere) |
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man emerge: |
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--verbose [ y | n ] (-v short option) |
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Tell emerge to run in verbose mode. Currently this flag |
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causes emerge to print out GNU info errors, if any, and to show the USE |
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flags that will be used for each package when pretending. The following |
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symbols are affixed to USE |
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flags in order to indicate their status: |
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Symbol Location Meaning |
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────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── |
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- prefix not enabled (either disabled or removed) |
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* suffix transition to or from the enabled state |
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% suffix newly added or removed |
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() circumfix forced, masked, or removed |
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{} circumfix state is bound to FEATURES settings |