Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-12 Thread Gilberto Martins
Hi again ... ---cut--- Then, kindly selected GRUB, and did this simple /boot/grub.conf file: default 0 timeout 0 splashimage=(dhb0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Gentoo Linux 2.6.12.gentoo-r10 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/2.6.12-gentoo-r10 root=/dev/hdb3 Remove the boot part

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-12 Thread Norberto Bensa
Gilberto Martins wrote: Then, kindly selected GRUB, and did this simple /boot/grub.conf file: You meant /boot/grub/menu.conf (or /boot/grub/grub.conf) splashimage=(dhb0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz ...=(hd0,0)/ Also check the kernel filename, usually it's named another way. ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-12 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 13:30 -0300, Gilberto Martins wrote: Hi again ... ---cut--- Then, kindly selected GRUB, and did this simple /boot/grub.conf file: default 0 timeout 0 splashimage=(dhb0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz think this is a typo^, mine

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-11 Thread b.n.
This is a well-documented change in portage. The use.defaults file is no longer used. Previously, this file would turn on use flags that were neither enabled nor disabled based on packages you had installed. This was a bad idea to begin with, IMHO; RIP use.defaults. Why a bad idea? I find

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 11 February 2006 05:08, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour': This is a well-documented change in portage. The use.defaults file is no longer used. Previously, this file would turn on use flags that were neither enabled nor disabled

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 11 February 2006 16:38, b.n. wrote: Why a bad idea? I find it made things easier. If you install SANE for example it is almost obvious you have installed a scanner and you probably need the scanner use flag. So use.defaults did. Of course you can disable it if you don't appear to

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 06:58:10PM +0530, Abhay Kedia wrote I first experienced this thing when I installed MySQL to use with amaroK. Ok I want it to manage my 20K files music collection but thats it!!! I don't want lots of other packages to think that I want MySQL support in them as well. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-11 Thread Gilberto Martins
Hi list. I have a problem and maybe it is simple to use. But consider I am a Debian renegade, searching for protection under Gentoo Roof ... :) I have the following Disc Configuration: /dev/hda = CDROM /dev/hdb = Hard Disk After hours of pain, I decided to start gentoo all in memory, using

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-11 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 23:48 -0200, Gilberto Martins wrote: Hi list. I have a problem and maybe it is simple to use. But consider I am a Debian renegade, searching for protection under Gentoo Roof ... :) I have the following Disc Configuration: /dev/hda = CDROM /dev/hdb = Hard

[gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-10 Thread Shawn Haggett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently installed the unstable version of portage (2.1_pre4-r1) so I could get access to the logging facilities (specifically having it send me emails of information instead of needing to watch the emerge output). However a recent 'emerge -Duva

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 10 February 2006 20:20, Shawn Haggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour': I recently installed the unstable version of portage. However a recent 'emerge -Duva world --newuse' turned up a long list of packages. Closer inspection showed

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-10 Thread Shawn Haggett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 10 February 2006 20:20, Shawn Haggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour': I recently installed the unstable version of portage. However a recent 'emerge -Duva world