Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
>darren kirby wrote:
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>>quoth the Allan Spagnol Comar:
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>>>Jaap van Geffen wrote:
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>>>>On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 08:42 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
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>>>>>Hi I am a new gentoo user and I got some doubts about the USE flags, I
>>>>>know this question should be post allot and I apologize for that, but
>>>>>I was wondering, I am not using any USE flags I got GNOME and ALSA on
>>>>>my system; it will make any diference use then, or by not putting any
>>>>>use flags it got all .....
>>>>>
>>>>>Sorry for the question, and thank you all.
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>>>>Don't mind,but what's your question??
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>>>My question is if I build a system, like installing software and I do
>>>not have setted any USE flags this will change the software, like I
>>>emerge anjuta ( Development IDE for Gnome ) without gtk or gnome Flags
>>>will make any diference ? If will make diference, how do I know what
>>>flags each package need.
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>>>Sory the poor english, but this are my doubts.
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>>>Thank you. Allan
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>>Adding '-v' to your emerge commands will provide a list of what use flags
>>each
>>package can use, and how your currently set use flags relate to that.
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>>$ equery uses packagename
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>>will also display this info, as well as a brief description of what the flag
>>does. Sometimes though, these sentences are not too descriptive. In any
>>event, the surefire way to see what a use flag is doing is to look at the
>>ebuild script.
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>>-d
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>this is helping a lot. Thank you.
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Hi,
Just to add some info, IMHO even when not using any USE-flags there are
some default flags (see them in
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/make.defaults file) and when you
put some USE-flags in /etc/make.conf they are merged/override these
default USE-flags and then the result is used.
Somebody correct if something wrong here. Using cascading-profiles.
HTH. Rumen
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