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On 5/8/06, Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> The suggested equery wasn't much help, but grep-ing use.local.desc was a gold |
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> mine. Thanks! I had already looked into use.desc and I stopped there and |
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> posted my request for help. Why is it, that use.desc contains less |
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> information about the use flags than use.local.desc? |
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The difference is that use.local.desc contains flags that are local to |
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specific ebuilds while the flags in use.desc are system wide flags. |
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Some flags in use.local.desc are common across 2 or even more ebuilds. |
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I don't know why those flags aren't global flags. There may even be |
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flags in use.local.desc that share the same name but mean very |
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different things to different packages. |
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Honestly, I think USE flags, as powerful as they are, are the |
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cruftiest part of Gentoo and could be so much more powerful and ought |
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to be so much less clumsy. |
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Justin |
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