Alan Mackenzie wrote:
I think that now I understand about profiles, my original problem with
cups/lprng fighting will melt away with a bit of editing.
Thanks to all!
Just in case you are talking about editing the files in profiles, that
won't work long term. Keep in mind that each time you run emerge --sync
those files will be overwritten. It is not a good idea to edit anything
in /usr/portage since it will update when you sync again.
If you want to enable/disable features in the profiles, do that in
make.conf instead. That is where you put in your final wishes.
Example: cups is enabled as a USE flag in the profile and you do not
want cups enabled. Put -cups in your make.conf and it should be
disabled. The reverse is also true. If you want cups but it is
disabled in the profile, you can add cups to your USE line in make.conf
and it will be enabled.
Hope that helps.
Dale
:-) :-)
