Re: [gentoo-user] mldonkey wants a gui, [solved] -- where do the flags come from?
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:36:22 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: That would be unworkable as flags are added or removed. It would also override and changes to the defaults without your knowing why. Get into the habit of using -av with emerge. You'll son see when you need to make changes to the flags. I prefer to start off USE in /etc/make.conf with -*, and then explicitly list the flags I want turned on. I also control a few packages with /etc/portage/package.use. This combines to give me full control over what's going on... that's the Gentoo spirit. You could be adversely affected by missing new flags or when flags change names. I prefer to explicitly specify the flags I know I do or do not want and leave the rest to their defaults. emerge -uavDN world warns me iof there have been any changes affecting my installed packages. -- Neil Bothwick Earlier, I didn't have time to finish anything. This time I w pgp6xjIywgkWl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] mldonkey wants a gui, [solved] -- where do the flags come from?
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:54:42 +1000, Amphibian wrote: So I remove them, and run the ocaml-rebuild again and it's happy, so I emerge mldonkey again and lo! It installs lablgl and lablgtk, then moves on to mldoney and drops out with the same error given above. What USE flags appear in emerge -pv net-p2p/mldonkey? I suspect you are using one or both of gtk and gtk2. Thanks -- they were both in there, added -gtk to the make.conf and all seems well. However, where do the defaults come from? There is no use.defaults in the make.profle folder, even though the wiki http://gentoo-wiki.com/FAQ_USE_Flags#Default_Use_Flags says that there should be. Should I be explicitly declaring flag or -flag in the make.conf for every possible flag? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mldonkey wants a gui, [solved] -- where do the flags come from?
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:51:26 +1000, Amphibian wrote: However, where do the defaults come from? There is no use.defaults in the make.profle folder, even though the wiki http://gentoo-wiki.com/FAQ_USE_Flags#Default_Use_Flags says that there should be. Portage uses cascading profiles now, so /etc/make.profile inherits use.defaults from /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/use.defaults and /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults. Should I be explicitly declaring flag or -flag in the make.conf for every possible flag? That would be unworkable as flags are added or removed. It would also override and changes to the defaults without your knowing why. Get into the habit of using -av with emerge. You'll son see when you need to make changes to the flags. -- Neil Bothwick RISC: Reduced Into Silly Code pgpzDXuAS89EL.pgp Description: PGP signature
