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On Wednesday 18 November 2009 07:49:40 Dale wrote: |
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> Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 17:41 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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> >> Should I be turning some of those off as they are not needed? This |
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> >> is |
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> >> my oldest install so I bet some are not even needed or can be done |
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> >> away |
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> >> with. I most likely had a good reason for turning them on way back |
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> >> when |
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> >> but may not have a good reason now. |
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> >> |
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> >> Dale |
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> > |
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> > I think you go down the wrong path when you ask someone else what USE |
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> > flags *you* need. We don't know you and your requirements/preferences |
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> > enough to know what is needed for you. It's like going up to a random |
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> > person and asking them if you should have your kitchen repainted and if |
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> > so what color. That rarely happens but for kitchens but confusingly |
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> > enough it's frequent for USE flags. |
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> > |
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> > Also, "emerge --info |grep USE" isn't very USEful (IMO) because it only |
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> > shows what USE flags you have turned on, not the ones you have turned |
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> > off. |
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> I was thinking that someone may see some USE flags that are no longer |
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> needed in most cases. Some may not even be still in use as far as |
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> portage is concerned. In other words, portage doesn't even recognize |
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> them as a option. Basically, I do some picture stuff, surf with |
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> Seamonkey, Firefox and sometimes Konqueror, sometimes get on chat with |
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> Kopete, play Solitaire, watch a video on youtube sometimes. Oh, I print |
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> stuff with my HP printer and download pics from my Canon camera. |
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> I never noticed that emerge --info doesn't show the USE flags I |
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> removed. That is sort of weird. I was thinking that it showed the USE |
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> flags with not only the profile but what I have set in make.conf which |
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> would include the ones turned on and turned off. Neat info. |
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eix comes with some useful utilities like eix-test-obsolete which scans all |
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your portage files and tells you which settings are redundant, duplicated and |
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so on. |
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It takes a while to parse all of it, but a useful exercise nonetheless |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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