I keep control of my USE flags, lets say, "manually". Of course, at install time you get a couple of defaults just to make sure you don't miss anything crucial. After that, every package goes trough an emerge -pv, its USE flags set at packages.use, I compile it. Of course, its tedious, its slow, but it gives me full control over my system, and I feel good with all the customized settings.
Eventually a good flag goes to make.conf, but that's rare, most of them are specific for some packages. On 10/14/05, Manuel McLure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Holly Bostick wrote: > > You could edit /etc/make.profile if you liked, I suppose, but Portage > > will update it at one or more various points anyway, and then where are you? > > One question for those with more USE flag-fu than I have - does the > default set of USE flags depend on the packages that have been installed > into world? It seems to me that at some point I have installed a package > (for example postgresql) and suddenly found that the next "emerge > --newuse world" spits out a list of packages it will rebuild with a new > flag. > > -- > Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.mclure.org> > ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, > no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
