On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, James wrote: > Q: I've installed some of my programs with specific USE flags that I > didn't define in make.conf e.g. I just typed 'USE="ssl etc" emerge > application'. If I update now using "emerge --update --deep world" will > Portage remember the USE flags I used originally (on an program specific > level), or will I have to go back and recompile my applications with my > USE flags?
Using USE="etc etc" is bad because it wont be saved anywhere so the answer is "no", emerge will not remember them and will use whatever the default USE flags are for a package. If you want persistent USE flags then create and use /etc/portage/package.use as detailed in the emerge man page. (USE flags shouldn't go into make.conf unless you want them set for every single package - for example on my servers the USE flags in /etc/make.conf have "-X" in them because I never ever want any X binaries on my servers). -- -- [email protected] mailing list
