Check out the gentoo web site docs under use flags.
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Harry Putnam wrote:
Bjoern Michaelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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man portage shows some of the syntax for `package.use' but apparently assumes a user will know more than I do. For example:
There appear to be a set of default use flags with various pkgs. In the instant case... sendmail.
How does one learn what those are? Just: `equery uses sendmail', or does that show what was actually used not just what the defaults are?
Further... if a user adds or subtracts a use flage like this:
cat /etc/portage/sendmail.use:
mail-mta/sendmail +mbox +mailwrapper +sasl
How will user now which other flags will be used? Or must they also be specified here? None of the flags that appear when I run:
`equery uses sendmail' are listed in: /etc/make.profile/make.defaults
So where do they come from?
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