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On Friday 18 March 2016 09:08:53 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> No one gets it right first time, there are many choices and many ways of |
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> doing things. No book can tell you which way is right for you, only |
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> experience can do that. Getting things like this wrong is a natural part |
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> of the Gentoo learning experience. |
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> You will develop your way of doing things over time, and that way could |
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> change as your needs do. Using your example of package.use, moving USE |
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> flags from package.use to make.conf is an easy enough task if you need to |
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> change. I tend to put them n package.use to start with then migrate to |
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> make.conf if I find I am using the same flag on several packages. |
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A simple way to start off is to see whether the USE flag is listed in |
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/usr/portage/profiles/use.desc or use.local.desc. If the former, it's likely |
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to affect many packages in a typical system so put it in make.conf; if the |
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latter, it's likely to affect only a few of your packages so put it in |
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package.use. You can always move it later if you want to, as Neil says. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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