Re: [gentoo-user] USE-flags description?

2015-02-07 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 06:36:29PM +0100, Jarry wrote: Hi Gentoo-users, where can I find description of *all* USE flags? I checked /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc and use.local.desc but still I can not find some... […] But I'd like to know what they means, but I could not find any

Re: [gentoo-user] USE-flags description?

2015-02-01 Thread Jarry
On 01-Feb-15 18:53, Markos Chandras wrote: where can I find description of *all* USE flags? I checked /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc and use.local.desc but still I can not find some... try /usr/portage/desc/cpu_flags_x86.desc You probably mean /usr/portage/profiles/desc/cpu_flags_x86.desc

Re: [gentoo-user] USE-flags description?

2015-02-01 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/01/2015 05:36 PM, Jarry wrote: Hi Gentoo-users, where can I find description of *all* USE flags? I checked /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc and use.local.desc but still I can not find some... cpuinfo2cpuflags-x86 suggested my

Re: [gentoo-user] USE-flags description?

2015-02-01 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gentoo-users, where can I find description of *all* USE flags? I checked /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc and use.local.desc but still I can not find some... cpuinfo2cpuflags-x86 suggested my CPU_FLAGS_X86 should be: aes avx

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-17 Thread thegeezer
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

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-17 Thread behrouz khosravi
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:51 AM, thegeezer thegee...@thegeezer.net wrote: late to the conversation but no one else has mentioned, ... Sounds neat, Thanks for the advise.

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 04:39:45 +0100, Stroller wrote: I have to confess, I don't follow desktop development to know myself what Phonon means. The page linked to in the package description for media-libs/phonon is, unsurprisingly, uninformative:

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 08:26:59 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: I have to confess, I don't follow desktop development to know myself what Phonon means. The page linked to in the package description for media-libs/phonon is, unsurprisingly, uninformative:

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-03 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Saturday 02 August 2014 16:13:19 Stroller wrote: On Sat, 2 August 2014, at 2:35 pm, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: ... Do you still have the bug numbers for this? I have a few machines without any sound support. If I can remove the entire sound system from it, it would save

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-03 Thread Philip Webb
140803 Joost Roeleveld wrote: In the settings for KMail, I had the tick-boxes mentioning HTML off already. Took me till this morning to notice that in the edit-window, Rich Text was selected. (It acts like a button that is pushed in) If anyone can tell me how to configure that to *always*

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-03 Thread Stroller
On Sun, 3 August 2014, at 7:49 am, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: ... Actually, I wasn't ignoring you. It just took some time to find the actual cause. My apologies, Joost. It was driving me crazy. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-03 Thread wraeth
On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 08:49 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: If anyone can tell me how to configure that to *always* default to *off*, instead of remembering the last setting, that would help. It's been a while since I used kmail (i always had issues and ended up reverting to thunderbird) but i'm

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-03 Thread Stroller
On Sun, 3 August 2014, at 9:17 am, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: … KDE actually specifies how to build without any multimedia (audio and video) support: https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/CMake#Command_Line_Variables cmake command line variable:

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-03 Thread Dale
wraeth wrote: On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 08:49 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: If anyone can tell me how to configure that to *always* default to *off*, instead of remembering the last setting, that would help. It's been a while since I used kmail (i always had issues and ended up reverting to

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-02 Thread Stroller
On Sat, 2 August 2014, at 2:35 pm, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: ... Do you still have the bug numbers for this? I have a few machines without any sound support. If I can remove the entire sound system from it, it would save time during the updates. Please, Joost, I beg you, stop

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-31 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 09:34:04PM +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote: Hello everyone. […] Now I am thinking about managing USE flags. […] I am not trying to have severe control, I just want to expand my knowledge! thanks. In such cases I tend to suggest installing ufed. 'tis a UI for setting

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-31 Thread behrouz khosravi
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: In such cases I tend to suggest installing ufed... Seems really handy. Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-31 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 In such cases I tend to suggest installing ufed. equery from gentoolkit works for me -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-30 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: 140730 behrouz khosravi wrote: Now it is obvious English is not my mother tongue! I suspect that may be true of a majority of Gentooers : we're all used to interpreting others' words trying to be careful to be clear when we do know English well. English is the only

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 30 July 2014 05:37:08 Dale wrote: English is the only language I know and even I mess it up at times. Yes, but then you are American ;) -- Regards Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-30 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2014 05:37:08 Dale wrote: English is the only language I know and even I mess it up at times. Yes, but then you are American ;) True but sometimes, I suck at it. For the record, I am bad to leave the word not or n't out. Talk about a monumental

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.07.2014 19:04, schrieb behrouz khosravi: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-30 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/29/14 21:04, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 30/07/2014 19:57, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 29.07.2014 19:04, schrieb behrouz khosravi: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-29 Thread Philip Webb
140729 behrouz khosravi wrote: I just concurred my fear and jumped to installing gentoo! ^ 'conquered' (smile) : 'concur' = 'agree'. So far so good! Yes, it's not difficult, but it's a sort of initiation test. Before installing on my laptop and desktop, I am trying on virtual box

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:34:04 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote: 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? You may well break your system, but you get to keep the pieces as a

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-29 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
Also, when setting up a new system, make USE flag changes gradually. Unless you are sure of what you are doing, only change a few at a time. Haha, just got frustrated with how much junk is on my machine and globally disabled perl, python, ruby, and a bunch of other stuff. Bad times ensued ;).

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-29 Thread behrouz khosravi
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 140729 behrouz khosravi wrote: ^ 'conquered' (smile) : 'concur' = 'agree'. Sorry. Now it is obvious English is not my mother tongue! regards.

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 09:34:04PM +0430, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-29 Thread behrouz khosravi
Portage profiles set some default USE flags, then some ebuilds also set defaults. Using USE=-* disables all of these. You can see the defaults I have noticed that some packages have flags that I have not set, but I though that they were the default flags for that package. You mean those flags

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-29 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Dienstag, 29. Juli 2014, 19:04:04 schrieb behrouz khosravi: 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? The default profile is what you need. Please don't do USE=-*. It

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 29/07/2014 22:16, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 09:34:04PM +0430, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-29 Thread Philip Webb
140730 behrouz khosravi wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 140729 behrouz khosravi wrote: ^ 'conquered' (smile) : 'concur' = 'agree'. Sorry. No need at all ! -- You said you wanted to learn (at the end) ! Now it is obvious English is not

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-29 Thread behrouz khosravi
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: In my make.conf I have... USE_BASE=-* a52 aac bzip2 cxx fortran ncurses netifrc nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive openssl posix readline ssl threads vim-syntax zlib USE_CPU=mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 USE_VIDEO=X

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-29 Thread behrouz khosravi
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I suspect that may be true of a majority of Gentooers : we're all used to interpreting others' words trying to be careful to be clear when we do know English well. I will be very happy to be a part of this great

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-29 Thread behrouz khosravi
Thank you all. I have concluded that I should stay with the base profile. Although I need a desktop, but this decision will be closest to what I want in a harmless way! (at least less harm!) Then I will add CPU specific and very frequent flags to make.conf and gradually extend the package.use

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-06-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: I think nowadays one would prefer --keep-going, which automatically resumes on failure (and recomputes the dependency tree!), and prints a list of failed packages when it's finished. However its output is more verbose than just

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-06-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/06/2014 12:44, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: I think nowadays one would prefer --keep-going, which automatically resumes on failure (and recomputes the dependency tree!), and prints a list of failed packages when it's finished.

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-23 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: I think nowadays one would prefer --keep-going, which automatically resumes on failure (and recomputes the dependency tree!), and prints a list of failed packages when it's finished. However its output is more verbose than just

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-22 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Wed, 21 May 2014 23:11:02 -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org: On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:10 PM, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: I run a script that syncs portage, updates @world, depcleans, revdep-rebuild and finally runs dispatch-conf -- about once weekly. Keeps my system in fine

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 May 2014 23:11:02 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: This one is a gem - I forget where I saw it (likely planet, but maybe it was on a list). Stick it in your crontab. I will warn you that sometimes it chokes on its own output and obviously it can't build binpkgs for anything more than

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 11:11:02 PM Rich Freeman wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:10 PM, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: I run a script that syncs portage, updates @world, depcleans, revdep-rebuild and finally runs dispatch-conf -- about once weekly. Keeps my system in fine trim. :) This

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
, May 20, 2014 7:44 AM *To:* gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org *Subject:* Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating On 05/20/2014 02:37 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: Hi all. How do I get Portage to update all software to use my new USE flags? I made some modifications to the variable, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/20/2014 11:56 PM, yac wrote: On Tue, 20 May 2014 14:49:17 +0300 Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: Here's what I usually run when updating the world. Long version: emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse @world With '--with-bdeps=y' set in the file shown

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-21 Thread Francesco Turco
What would you recommend? Thanks. I always use emerge -uDNav @world --with-bdeps=y --keep-going=y, as I want to update *all* packages on my system. What's the point in keeping on the system some packages that are deliberately not updated?

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-21 Thread ny6p01
: *From:*Alexander Kapshuk [mailto:alexander.kaps...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, May 20, 2014 7:44 AM *To:* gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org *Subject:* Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating On 05/20/2014 02:37 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: Hi all. How do I get Portage to update all

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:10 PM, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: I run a script that syncs portage, updates @world, depcleans, revdep-rebuild and finally runs dispatch-conf -- about once weekly. Keeps my system in fine trim. :) This one is a gem - I forget where I saw it (likely planet, but maybe it

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-20 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/20/2014 02:37 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: Hi all. How do I get Portage to update all software to use my new USE flags? I made some modifications to the variable, and I want to make sure that all packages can use the flags. emerge(1) -N -- --newuse

RE: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-20 Thread Hunter Jozwiak
From: Alexander Kapshuk [mailto:alexander.kaps...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 7:44 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating On 05/20/2014 02:37 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: Hi all. How do I get Portage to update all software to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-20 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/20/2014 02:40 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: *From:*Alexander Kapshuk [mailto:alexander.kaps...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, May 20, 2014 7:44 AM *To:* gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org *Subject:* Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating On 05/20/2014 02:37 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-20 Thread Stephan Müller
Am 20.05.2014 13:37, schrieb Hunter Jozwiak: Hi all. How do I get Portage to update all software to use my new USE flags? I made some modifications to the variable, and I want to make sure that all packages can use the flags. Hi, you can use the --newuse option of emerge, like this: #

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-20 Thread Matti Nykyri
On May 20, 2014, at 14:49, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/20/2014 02:40 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: From: Alexander Kapshuk [mailto:alexander.kaps...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 7:44 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-20 Thread yac
On Tue, 20 May 2014 14:49:17 +0300 Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: Here's what I usually run when updating the world. Long version: emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse @world With '--with-bdeps=y' set in the file shown below: grep bdeps

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags

2012-07-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:55:58 +0200 Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, after longer time want update my Gentoo PC. But ever come error msg with the USE Flags. I not know what say me Gentoo with the message. gentoo-desk ~ # emerge -uDN world Calculating dependencies... done!

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags

2012-07-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Jul 26 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:55:58 +0200 Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, after longer time want update my Gentoo PC. But ever come error msg with the USE Flags. I not know what say me Gentoo with the message. gentoo-desk ~ # emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags

2012-07-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:22:25 -0400 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Your USE for media-libs/sdl-mixer has this: mikmod -mod The system wants mod if mikmod is set, or both to be off. Add this to /etc/portage/package.mask: media-libs/sdl-mixer mod Don't you mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags

2012-07-25 Thread Yohan Pereira
On 07/25/12 at 06:55pm, Silvio Siefke wrote: The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: mikmod? ( mod ) Hi, The above messages is telling you that, if the 'mikmod' useflag is set the 'mod' use flag neeeds to be set too. gentoo-desk ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.use |

Re: [gentoo-user] USE-flags and CFLAGS of stage3?

2011-08-15 Thread Michael Hampicke
Does anyone know what are the USE-flags and CFLAGS used for the current stage3? Unpack your stage3 and then cat /var/db/pkg/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5/{USE,CFLAGS} amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux mudflap nls nptl openmp userland_GNU -mtune=i686 -O2 -pipe Regards

Re: [gentoo-user] USE-flags and CFLAGS of stage3?

2011-08-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 16:53, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: Does anyone know what are the USE-flags and CFLAGS used for the current stage3? Unpack your stage3 and then cat /var/db/pkg/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5/{USE,CFLAGS} amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux mudflap nls nptl openmp

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags confusing on emerge gimp

2009-09-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 04 September 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: After some resent discussion here of USE in thread: Subject: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox I'm a little confused by what I see when investigating the emerge of gimp (wrapped for mail). Calculating dependencies...

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags confusing on emerge gimp

2009-09-04 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:25:59 -0500, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: After some resent discussion here of USE in thread: Subject: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox I'm a little confused by what I see when investigating the emerge of gimp (wrapped for mail).

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags confusing on emerge gimp

2009-09-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote: After some resent discussion here of USE in thread: Subject: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox I'm a little confused by what I see when investigating the emerge of gimp (wrapped for mail). Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags for tif/tiff

2007-03-14 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 10:49 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Are there USE flags (except for tif/tiff) I must add to make.conf/USE=... string which influence to tif/tiff rendering? I have noticed, I can not open some tif files which were created by scanning-related software on win32 machines.

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags for tif/tiff

2007-03-14 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! === On Wednesday 14 March 2007, you wrote: === ... When you say can not open is there some kind of error message associated with it? I've not had any issues with TIFF files (though admittedly I rarely need to open any), but I would guess if it's only some files then it may be

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags for tif/tiff

2007-03-14 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 17:29 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: All programs says about bad format. You are right, only some rare TIFF files can not be opened. I use IrfanView (as it is at least free) under wine to see such files. 'identify' for last problem file output is (and GIMP says

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags and configure-time problems

2007-01-15 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 14 January 2007 20:10, Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote: I understand why this happend, and I know how to solve it. My point is: should the RDEPEND and DEPEND syntax in ebuilds be changed so that this kind of problems can be detected before emerging?

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags and configure-time problems

2007-01-15 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 15 January 2007 13:12, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: The syntax has been agreed on (cate-gory/pkg:use) Bugger! That's for slot deps (cate-gory/pkg:slot). I meant cate-gory/pkg[use]... At least I think they agreed... -- Bo Andresen pgpi2uStOgtlb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags and configure-time problems

2007-01-15 Thread Avaricen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote: Hi there. I just happend to emerge evince and, after half an hour got the following error: 18:07:32 (44.99 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/evince-0.6.1.tar.bz2' saved [1212271/1212271] * checking ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags information resource

2007-01-02 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you for the insight, Alan. I am just getting to the point of understanding this. As a non -developer/programmer I have been at a loss to understand these basic points about USE flags. Over time, they begin to make sense. Your pointer about the ebuilds is extremely valuable. Maybe it's

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags information resource

2007-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 15:35, Alan E. Davis wrote: Thank you for the insight, Alan. I am just getting to the point of understanding this. As a non -developer/programmer I have been at a loss to understand these basic points about USE flags. Over time, they begin to make sense. Your

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags information resource

2007-01-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 01 January 2007 05:52, Alan E. Davis wrote: On 12/31/06, Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this is an excellent idea! For starters you can use euse: # euse -i useflagname I already use euse. It is really helpful. The short descriptions of the USE flags are often

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags information resource

2006-12-31 Thread Alan E. Davis
On 12/31/06, Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this is an excellent idea! For starters you can use euse: # euse -i useflagname I already use euse. It is really helpful. The short descriptions of the USE flags are often helpful. Just as often, they are not informative enough to

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags information resource

2006-12-26 Thread Thomas Tuttle
On December 26 at 20:38 EST, Alan E. Davis hastily scribbled: I wiki about USE flags would be extremely useful. Am I the only one, or are newbies the only ones who encounter USE flags with cryptic significance? The descriptions from euse, profuse, etc., are a bit of a help alot of the time;

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags question

2006-06-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Learn something every day. So if I remove the doc USE flag that will not remove the man page? That would be cool. I wonder how much space that takes up? hmm, is there also an man useflag or some other option to kick of manpages (I personally

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags question

2006-06-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Learn something every day. So if I remove the doc USE flag that will not remove the man page? That would be cool. I wonder how much space that takes up? hmm, is there also an man useflag or some other option to

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags question

2006-06-02 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Freitag, 2. Juni 2006 12:41 schrieb Teresa and Dale: Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Learn something every day. So if I remove the doc USE flag that will not remove the man page? That would be cool. I wonder how much space that takes up?

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags question

2006-06-02 Thread Teresa and Dale
Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Freitag, 2. Juni 2006 12:41 schrieb Teresa and Dale: Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Learn something every day. So if I remove the doc USE flag that will not remove the man page? That would be cool. I

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags question

2006-05-31 Thread Ryan Tandy
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Am I correct in thinking that USE flags in /etc/portage/profiles/use.desc are global flags and should be placed in /etc/make.conf whereas those in use.local.desc are only local flags and should only be placed in /etc/portage/package.use with the appropriate package?

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags question

2006-05-31 Thread Calvin Walton
On 5/31/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I correct in thinking that USE flags in /etc/portage/profiles/use.desc are global flags and should be placed in /etc/make.conf whereas those in use.local.desc are only local flags and should only be placed in /etc/portage/package.use with

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags question

2006-05-31 Thread Teresa and Dale
Calvin Walton wrote: To tell the truth, you can put either kind of use flag in either file. The difference is what you want to apply the flag to. If you want only a single package to have a global use flag set differently from the rest of the system, you put it in package.use. If you see a

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags question

2006-05-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 May 2006 15:15:31 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote: This is something I ran into a while back. For some reason the doc would not compile for hal. I wanted the docs for everything else though so putting -doc in the USE line in make.conf would remove the docs for everything, not just

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags question

2006-05-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 May 2006 12:15:10 -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote: It doesn't really matter. Where you should put them depends on how you want them to take effect. A flag that only affects one package will affect that one package regardless of whether it's in make.conf or package.use, so I prefer to

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags question

2006-05-31 Thread Teresa and Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 May 2006 15:15:31 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote: This is something I ran into a while back. For some reason the doc would not compile for hal. I wanted the docs for everything else though so putting -doc in the USE line in make.conf would remove the docs for

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags for amd64 (running in 32 bit)

2006-05-16 Thread John Jolet
Harry Putnam wrote: I'm running 32bit gentoo on an amd athlon64 would the architeture USE flag still be ~x86? or something else? k8 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame

2006-03-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If down the road I realize that I've left out use flag for mplayer would I have to recompile mplayer? Yes, of course. I could make /etc/packages/portage.use something like: 'media-sound/lame-3.96.1' along with the other flags, and then mplayer would have lame

Re: [gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame

2006-03-22 Thread Mickey Mullin
On 22/03/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I think about this more, it seems that, for example, I might just install lame directly with portage. In that case, it'd be up to mplayer to recognize lame's presence, yes? However, with the use flags, mplayer is compiled with lame?

Re: [gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame

2006-03-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mickey Mullin wrote: Having done that, subsequently emerging phpmysql will not re-emerge Apache OR PHP, even though they are both requirements. However, I don't know what would actually happen, since the scenario above would have you with PHP on your system but without its being able to

Re: [gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame

2006-03-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alexander Skwar wrote: Mickey Mullin wrote: Having done that, subsequently emerging phpmysql will not re-emerge Apache OR PHP, even though they are both requirements. However, I don't know what would actually happen, since the scenario above would have you with PHP on your system but

Re: [gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame

2006-03-22 Thread Mickey Mullin
On 22/03/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mickey Mullin wrote: Having done that, subsequently emerging phpmysql will not re-emerge Apache OR PHP, even though they are both requirements. However, I don't know what would actually happen, since the scenario above would have you

Re: [gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame

2006-03-22 Thread Mickey Mullin
On 22/03/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mickey Mullin wrote: phpmysql I assume that you were talking about phpmyadmin. But of course. I must have had mysql stapled to my forebrain when I typed phpmysql. Must be the late afternoon slump doing me in. Well, that and that I've

Re: [gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame

2006-03-22 Thread Pierrick Couturier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If down the road I realize that I've left out use flag for mplayer would I have to recompile mplayer? localhost ~ # localhost ~ # emerge -pv mplayer These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N]

Re: [gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame

2006-03-22 Thread Mickey Mullin
On 22/03/06, Pierrick Couturier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If down the road I realize that I've left out use flag for mplayer would I have to recompile mplayer? localhost ~ # localhost ~ # emerge -pv mplayer These are the packages that I would merge, in

Re: [gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame

2006-03-22 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 3/22/06, Pierrick Couturier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. You have xmms in your USE flags (default gentoo USE flags, I assume). So when you'va tried to install mplayer, portage wants to install xmms too because mplayer can use xmms or parts of it (I don't how) if you want. Yes, xmms is in

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/9/06, Goran Maksimoviæ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw that there was a discussion about USE flags and I would seek your advice on that matter. I recently installed once again Gentoo 2006.0 but before this version a few months' ago I installed and for a short period of time used Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags

2006-03-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/9/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's just the way I do it, any comments? (no flames please, I'll not change my mind :) That is pretty much what I do, except that I also take the additional step of having -* for USE in my make.conf to disable anything that the profile adds by

RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags

2006-03-09 Thread Goran Maksimović
@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags On 3/9/06, Goran Maksimoviæ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw that there was a discussion about USE flags and I would seek your advice on that matter. I recently installed once again Gentoo 2006.0 but before this version a few months' ago I

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags

2006-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 March 2006 10:29, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags': On 3/9/06, Goran Maksimoviæ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw that there was a discussion about USE flags and I would seek your advice on that matter. Well, when I installed Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags - Why use ntpl/ntplonly in make.conf?

2006-02-03 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:40:39 -0500 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Myself I tried ntpl (and also ntplonly at someones suggestion). It is supposed to offer better thread support, especially if you have an SMP or dual core system. I have an SMP system. It's just more lightweight by

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags - Why use ntpl/ntplonly in make.conf?

2006-02-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/3/06, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can recommend NPTL for situations where threading really matters. And it only speeds threading, so whether using it or not is a matter of analyzing your application landscape... I agree. Java applications in particular seem to benefit

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags - Why use ntpl/ntplonly in make.conf?

2006-02-02 Thread fire-eyes
Jeff wrote: Just wondering - how would my system benefit from using ntpl/ntplonly? I don't see very much 'official' documentation of these USE flags, but Googling, I see a lot of people using it to 'optimize' their gcc/system. Anyone care to comment? Myself I tried ntpl (and also ntplonly

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