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From: Sergio Polini <sp_rm_it@×××××.it>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.1 weirdness
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:07:21
Message-Id: 200606152155.43994.sp_rm_it@yahoo.it
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.1 weirdness by Mick
1 Mick:
2 > As I understand it (I'm sure this has been covered in GWN, forums,
3 > etc.) USE flags which had been set automatically by certain
4 > packages are no longer valid universally. Therefore, either add
5 > those USE flags missing (e.g. ldap & mozilla for OOo) in your
6 > /etc/make.conf, or if you only want them for a particular package
7 > add them in /etc/portage/package.use.
8
9 I'm sure (I'ld like to be sure) that this change is documented
10 somewhere, but I can't find where.
11 I need documentation because I'm an advanced user of some packages
12 (f.i., tetex), but a naive user of other ones (f.i., xine). So I
13 can't understand why and how I should re-emerge xine because of:
14
15 [ebuild R ] media-video/xine-ui-0.99.4-r5 USE="X ncurses nls
16 readline -aalib -curl* -libcaca -lirc -vdr -xinerama" 0 kB
17
18 Any hints?
19
20 Thanks
21 Sergio
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.1 weirdness Rumen Yotov <rumen@××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.1 weirdness "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>