Re: [gentoo-user] tunning use flag
That will show you
what use flags
are available for a package, and if you see gtk or
qt, you can
investigate further what you lose by disabling them.
How can I find out what I loose by disabling specific
flag ?
equery uses pks
shows general info only.
I looked into:
fluxbox-0.9.14-r1.ebuild
and I found:
src_compile() {
econf \
...
$(use_enable kde) \
...
and that's all about e.g. kde flag.
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Re: [gentoo-user] tunning use flag
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:44:23 -0700 (PDT), Pawel K wrote: How can I find out what I loose by disabling specific flag ? equery uses pks shows general info only. USE=-flag emerge -pvuDN world -- Neil Bothwick Gotta run, cat's caught in the printer... signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] tunning use flag
On 4/13/06, Pawel K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I find out what I loose by disabling specific flag ? equery uses pks shows general info only. If you are exceptionally lucky, grep -e ^kde -e :kde /usr/portage/profiles/use.*desc will tell you what it does, or you can determine this from the ebuild comments or script. If you are very lucky, a google search with the appropriate terms will tell you. You need to know that econf ... $(use_enable kde) translates to ./configure ... --enable-kde. So a google for fluxbox configure --enable-kde might help. If you are a little lucky, there will be a README or INSTALL file in the source tarball that will explain exactly what the configure options do. If you have any luck at all, you can interrupt the compile process, cd to the package build directory in /var/tmp/portage, and run ./configure --help to get documentation about what the option does. But in the normal case, you have to read the source to really understand what impact a use flag has. Or experiment with it on and off. Cheers, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] tunning use flag
Hello I'm not sure whether I understand the USE flag properly. I'm using fluxbox as X window manager. I'm not using kde and gnome and I'm not interested in those packages. Can I remove support for them in my /etc/make.conf by specifying: USE=-kde -gnome -qt -gtk -gtk+ Will ethereal work after that changes. It listens to gtk flag. Will it be compiled with gtk support ins spite of my -gtk specification. Thank You for help __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] tunning use flag
Pawel K wrote: Hello I'm not sure whether I understand the USE flag properly. I'm using fluxbox as X window manager. I'm not using kde and gnome and I'm not interested in those packages. Can I remove support for them in my /etc/make.conf by specifying: USE=-kde -gnome -qt -gtk -gtk+ Will ethereal work after that changes. It listens to gtk flag. Will it be compiled with gtk support ins spite of my -gtk specification. Thank You for help After that you will be able to use only tethereal. If you want to use gtk ethereal # echo net-analyzer/ethereal gtk /etc/portage/package.use -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] tunning use flag
On 4/12/06, Pawel K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I'm not sure whether I understand the USE flag properly. I'm using fluxbox as X window manager. I'm not using kde and gnome and I'm not interested in those packages. USE flags turn on optional support (and dependancies) in packages. So for those packages with optional kde or gnome support, disabling those use flags will build the packages without that support. But they do not effect packages with fixed dependancies. For example, kdevelop requires kdelibs, so if you merge kdevelop, you will end up with kdelibs installed as well, regardless of the kde use flag setting. For the qt and gtk flags, the general effect is that you do not get any optional GUI interfaces for the packages. As has been pointed out, merging ethereal without gtk gives you only tethereal. Similarly, merging mplayer without gtk support gives you only mplayer, not gmplayer. Xine gives you only xine, not gxine. And so on. If you really don't want those other interfaces, then disable the flags. You can always enable them again for a specific package with /etc/portage/package.use. Also you might want to get in the habit of running emerge with the --pretend and --verbose options. That will show you what use flags are available for a package, and if you see gtk or qt, you can investigate further what you lose by disabling them. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] tunning use flag
gtk != gnome. Gnome uses GTK, but so does XFCE, Gimp, Ethereal, etc. So, you may not want -gtk and -gtk+ in your main packages. That said Gogiel is absolutley correct. js On 4/12/06, Gogiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pawel K wrote: Hello I'm not sure whether I understand the USE flag properly. I'm using fluxbox as X window manager. I'm not using kde and gnome and I'm not interested in those packages. Can I remove support for them in my /etc/make.conf by specifying: USE=-kde -gnome -qt -gtk -gtk+ Will ethereal work after that changes. It listens to gtk flag. Will it be compiled with gtk support ins spite of my -gtk specification. Thank You for help After that you will be able to use only tethereal. If you want to use gtk ethereal # echo net-analyzer/ethereal gtk /etc/portage/package.use -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
