On 29/07/14 18:04, behrouz khosravi wrote: > Hello everyone. > I just concurred my fear and jumped to installing gentoo! > So far so good! > Before installing on my laptop and desktop, I am trying on virtual box > and the system is running Fluxbox very good.(default profile) > Now I am thinking about managing USE flags. > What if I disable everything in the make.conf ( I mean USE="-*" ) and > gradually add the needed flags to package.use? > I am not trying to have severe control, I just want to expand my knowledge! > thanks. > late to the conversation but no one else has mentioned, you might want to take advantage of the newer way of doing use flags. i.e. do not put them all in /etc/portage/make.conf take advantage of the /etc/portage/package.use/ (you might need to mkdir this) in there you can put a single file per package requirements.
i.e. you try to emerge etherape, and it tells you that libgnomecanvas requires use of glade so cat the requirement into a file named by what requires it $ cat /etc/portage/package.use/etherape >=gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.30.3 glade this also works for package.keywords etc this means that you can more easily keep track of which use flags are for which programs: $ ls /etc/portage/package.use/ chromium efl freemind teamviewer transmission compiz etherape gvfs terminator vinagre darktable filemangler networkmanager thunar virtualbox dvdrip firefox stellarium thunderbird wpa_supplicant hth
