Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 20 May 2011 09:17:48 JDM wrote: Try eselect profile list which should list available profiles including a gnome. You will need symlinks in USE flags in make.conf to get eselect to work and reemerged world. What do you mean? Symlinks in USE flags? I'm flummoxed. Not sure how

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-23 Thread JDM
Ignore the bit about symlinks. Sorry talking garbage. Not sure what I was thinking but trying to suggest there is a use flag called symlink. Its not related to this. Apologies. --Original Message-- From: Peter Humphrey To: Gentoo ReplyTo: Gentoo Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-20 Thread JDM
. --Original Message-- From: Felix Leif Keppmann To: Gentoo ReplyTo: Gentoo Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags? Sent: 19 May 2011 19:58 Hey Alan, to get the current USE flags use emerge --info and look at USE=... This does not include local use flags, for those you should

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Bill. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 01:00:45PM -0700, Bill Longman wrote: On 05/19/2011 11:45 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. How do I list out a list of current USE flags? Besides the emerge --info examples already given, if you have gentoolkit installed, you can use euse -i

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:55:52PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:45 on Thursday 19 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: Hi, Gentoo. How do I list out a list of current USE flags? emerge --info | grep USE Thanks! The reason I ask is

[gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo. How do I list out a list of current USE flags? The reason I ask is I'm hypothesising that my recent troubles in Gnome may be due to not having a suitable profile. I would like to select a different profile and compare its USE flags with those of my current profile. -- Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:45 on Thursday 19 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: Hi, Gentoo. How do I list out a list of current USE flags? emerge --info | grep USE The reason I ask is I'm hypothesising that my recent troubles in Gnome may be due to not having a

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-19 Thread Felix Leif Keppmann
Hey Alan, to get the current USE flags use emerge --info and look at USE=... This does not include local use flags, for those you should check your files in /etc/portage/package.use or /etc/portage/package.use/ Cheers Felix Leif On Thursday 19 May 2011 18:45:41 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-19 Thread Bill Longman
On 05/19/2011 11:45 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. How do I list out a list of current USE flags? Besides the emerge --info examples already given, if you have gentoolkit installed, you can use euse -i which, in the example above, lists out all the flags, where they come from and