* Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-10-18 14:05]:
Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:29:12 +0200 Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Why is 3dfx not enabled by default for xorg?
Because most people who use applications which have a 3dfx USE flag do
not require
Jorge Almeida schrieb:
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote:
kde or gnome are DE's. I'm sure every member of the scientific community
needs at least one,
What would they need that for? And what's the use of the USE
flag? It would make sense, if those *packages* were installed.
and so
Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
So, for things with optional emboss support, by default the emboss
support will be enabled. Which makes sense, because if you're
installing science apps, you'll probably want it, and if you're not
installing science apps you'll never see it anyway.
No, that doesn't
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:52:00 +0200 Alexander Skwar
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| But, you're quite right, I also can't see why something
| as arcane as emboss is in hte default set of USE flags.
Dead easy. For applications which have optional emboss support, the
most sensible behaviour is to enable
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:54:58 +0200 Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
| So, for things with optional emboss support, by default the emboss
| support will be enabled. Which makes sense, because if you're
| installing science apps, you'll probably want it, and if
Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:52:00 +0200 Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| But, you're quite right, I also can't see why something
| as arcane as emboss is in hte default set of USE flags.
Dead easy. For applications which have optional emboss support, the
most
Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:54:58 +0200 Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
| So, for things with optional emboss support, by default the emboss
| support will be enabled. Which makes sense, because if you're
| installing science apps,
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:29:12 +0200 Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Dead easy. For applications which have optional emboss support, the
| most sensible behaviour is to enable it by default.
|
| Why is 3dfx not enabled by default for xorg?
Because most people who use applications
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:31:45 +0200 Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Yep. Same as enabling the optional emboss support. If
| you're arguing, that some settings lead to bloated
| systems, then /NO/ USE flag at all should be enabled. If
| you're arguing, that most sensible behaviour is to
Alexander Skwar schreef:
No, that doesn't make sense. A simple question: Why is 3dfx not in
the default set of USE flags? If you install a graphics software,
like xorg, 3dfx users probably want it. And if you're not a 3dfx
user, it won't do harm.
For something like 3dfx, this is not
Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:29:12 +0200 Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Dead easy. For applications which have optional emboss support, the
| most sensible behaviour is to enable it by default.
|
| Why is 3dfx not enabled by default for xorg?
Because most
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:28:22 +0200 Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Why is ipv6 in make.defaults? Most people don't (yet) use
| ipv6 and compiling in ipv6 support may make some applications
| be overly bloat.
It's part of a vast Gentoo conspiracy to covertly switch everyone over
to ipv6
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
Uh, no. USE flags do not control whether packages get installed. They
control whether something which has **optional** support will use it.
Yes, I just think it would be more usefull for beginners to have a set
of defaults they could use as a
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:06:26 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
Actually, fortran is a gcc flag that seems to have some other uses.
You *DO* need it.
What for? I have -fortran on several computers and have never suffered
for its lack.
--
Neil Bothwick
MS-DOS: if you believe in a flat Earth, this
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:03:44 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| So, for things with optional emboss support, by default the emboss
| support will be enabled. Which makes sense, because if you're
| installing science apps, you'll
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:29:39PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote
I would like to know how the current USE variables are set.
I know that emerge --info displays a list of all of them, but it doesn't
discriminate where they come from. I couldn't find clear documentation
about it, but of course I
On Oct 14, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:29:39 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I would like to know how the current USE variables are set.
| I know that emerge --info displays a list of all of them, but it
| doesn't discriminate where
John Jolet schreef:
On Oct 14, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:29:39 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I would like to know how the
current USE variables are set. | I know that emerge --info
displays a list of all of them, but it |
Holly Bostick wrote:
You could edit /etc/make.profile if you liked, I suppose, but Portage
will update it at one or more various points anyway, and then where are you?
One question for those with more USE flag-fu than I have - does the
default set of USE flags depend on the packages that have
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 13:15 -0700, Manuel McLure wrote:
One question for those with more USE flag-fu than I have - does the
default set of USE flags depend on the packages that have been installed
into world? It seems to me that at some point I have installed a package
(for example
I keep control of my USE flags, lets say, manually. Of course, at
install time you get a couple of defaults just to make sure you don't
miss anything crucial. After that, every package goes trough an emerge
-pv, its USE flags set at packages.use, I compile it. Of course, its
tedious, its slow, but
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:15:17 -0700 Manuel McLure [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| One question for those with more USE flag-fu than I have - does the
| default set of USE flags depend on the packages that have been
| installed into world? It seems to me that at some point I have
| installed a package
Jorge Almeida schreef:
I would like to know how the current USE variables are set.
Afaik, they are set by /etc/make/profile/make.defaults, and
overridden/added to
globally by /etc/make.conf, and individually by /etc/portage/package.use.
I know that emerge --info displays a list of all of them,
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote:
Afaik, they are set by /etc/make/profile/make.defaults, and
overridden/added to
globally by /etc/make.conf, and individually by /etc/portage/package.use.
The handbook
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=2
says they come
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Jorge Almeida wrote:
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote:
Afaik, they are set by /etc/make/profile/make.defaults, and
overridden/added to
globally by /etc/make.conf, and individually by /etc/portage/package.use.
The handbook
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