Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:54:27PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote No, it means the flag setting changed since the last install. The newer portage also has a % to show the flag has been added to the ebuild since the last install. You are thinking of use.defaults, which appear to have been phased

[gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-30 Thread Simon Kellett
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any changed flags will have a * after them. I thought that meant that the option was auto-selected for you (eg if the default for this ebuild is -perl, but you have perl installed it will change the default to +perl and put a * by it to warn you.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-30 Thread Ryan Tandy
Simon Kellett wrote: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any changed flags will have a * after them. I thought that meant that the option was auto-selected for you (eg if the default for this ebuild is -perl, but you have perl installed it will change the default to +perl and

[gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-30 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 30 January 2006 22:16, Simon Kellett wrote: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any changed flags will have a * after them. I thought that meant that the option was auto-selected for you (eg if the default for this ebuild is -perl, but you have perl installed it will change

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:16:14 +0100, Simon Kellett wrote: Any changed flags will have a * after them. I thought that meant that the option was auto-selected for you (eg if the default for this ebuild is -perl, but you have perl installed it will change the default to +perl and put a * by it

[gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-29 Thread Simon Kellett
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: build R ] media-video/vlc-0.8.4a USE=alsa arts cdda dvd esd ffmpeg matroska mp3 mpeg nls nsplugin ogg real vlm vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xml2 xv -3dfx -X -a52 -aac -aalib -avahi -bidi -corba -daap -debug -dts -dvb -fbcon -flac -ggi -gnutls

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:36:50 +0100, Simon Kellett wrote: Sorry: I can not answer your question, but there is an error in your reasoning (I think). I assume the output above is from emerge -pv ? If so then I think it is NOT showing you the flags that *were* used to emerge the package, but the