2009/5/19 Kevin Coetzee <[email protected]> > Adam Carter wrote: > >> The time has come to edit make.conf on my new gentoo-netbook. >>> But one thing has always bothered me: What's the point of >>> specifying a *negative* flag with a hyphen? Why not just >>> leave the flags you don't use out of the file entirely? >>> >> >> Some flags are on by default, so this stops their use. >> >> >> > example, I use openbox , so don't need gnome or kde support. > > I haven't got access to my Gentoo box, but from memory, /etc/make.profile I think is a symbolic link to another file that contains all the default make flags. One way to determine the flags is running:
$ emerge --info It should list the USE-flags on your system, allowing you to find out any extras that may have been set that you may want to "-" away. HTH... ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) ==> Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gentoooo-hooo!! <== ==> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml <==
