Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags for lvm2?
On 2013-02-10 3:43 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:40:00 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: Here's what IUSE says are enabled for the currently installed lvm2: readline +static +static-libs clvm cman +lvm1 selinux IUSE shows the flags that were available to that build, USE shows the flags that were used. Ah, thanks for that... Ok, so the current one was installed with:: amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux lvm1 multilib readline static static-libs userland_GNU And the update wants to install with: USE=lvm1 readline thin%* udev%* (-clvm) (-cman) (-selinux) -static* -static-libs* So, what is with the differences? + thin udev Why is amd64, elibc_glibc, kernel_linux, multilib userland_GNU not included? and why omitting - static, static-libs ? Just trying to understand why the changes, and want to make sure lvm isn't going to end up failing on me the next reboot... Thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags for lvm2?
On 11/02/2013 14:09, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-02-10 3:43 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:40:00 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: Here's what IUSE says are enabled for the currently installed lvm2: readline +static +static-libs clvm cman +lvm1 selinux IUSE shows the flags that were available to that build, USE shows the flags that were used. Ah, thanks for that... Ok, so the current one was installed with:: amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux lvm1 multilib readline static static-libs userland_GNU And the update wants to install with: USE=lvm1 readline thin%* udev%* (-clvm) (-cman) (-selinux) -static* -static-libs* So, what is with the differences? + thin udev Why is amd64, elibc_glibc, kernel_linux, multilib userland_GNU not included? and why omitting - static, static-libs ? Just trying to understand why the changes, and want to make sure lvm isn't going to end up failing on me the next reboot... Thanks The answers to most of the questions you asked are in the ebuild file and in the ChangeLog. You can find them at $PORTDIR/sys-fs/lvm2/ amd64, elibc_glibc, kernel_linux, multilib userland_GNU are not in emerge output as those are not USE flags in the regular sense of the word. Don't worry about them, they define the basic settings upon which portage built your host. Change any of them only at your peril, you will break things horribly (and keep N pieces, where N is a big number). You can see the full lot near the end of emerge --info -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags for lvm2?
Am 10.02.2013 19:37, schrieb Tanstaafl: I'm prepping for updating some things I've been putting off, and I noticed that lvm2 has some new use flags set, and I'm wondering why... [ebuild U ] sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.97-r1 [2.02.88] USE=lvm1 readline thin%* udev%* (-clvm) (-cman) (-selinux) -static* -static-libs* 1,166 kB The two that are new/green (with asterisks) are -static and -static-libs... I'm pretty sure that lvm2 was NOT built with either of these, but is there a way to to tell what USE flags were used for the currently installed package? I guess you remember wrongly: Symbol LocationMeaning *suffix transition to or from the enabled state %suffix newly added or removed Read /var/db/pkg/sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.88/IUSE to find out what was enabled. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags for lvm2?
On 2013-02-10 1:47 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 10.02.2013 19:37, schrieb Tanstaafl: I'm pretty sure that lvm2 was NOT built with either of these, but is there a way to to tell what USE flags were used for the currently installed package? I guess you remember wrongly: Symbol LocationMeaning *suffix transition to or from the enabled state %suffix newly added or removed Read /var/db/pkg/sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.88/IUSE to find out what was enabled. Thanks Florian, yep, you're right... So, the question becomes, why did these change? I do have /user on a separate LVM partition, so, is this something I should worry about? Actually, a bit of googling suggests I shouldn't have had them enabled in the first place? Thanks again
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags for lvm2?
Am 10.02.2013 20:07, schrieb Tanstaafl:
On 2013-02-10 1:47 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote:
Am 10.02.2013 19:37, schrieb Tanstaafl:
I'm pretty sure that lvm2 was NOT built with either of these, but is
there a way to to tell what USE flags were used for the currently
installed package?
I guess you remember wrongly:
Symbol LocationMeaning
*suffix transition to or from the enabled state
%suffix newly added or removed
Read /var/db/pkg/sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.88/IUSE to find out what was enabled.
Thanks Florian, yep, you're right...
So, the question becomes, why did these change? I do have /user on a
separate LVM partition, so, is this something I should worry about?
Actually, a bit of googling suggests I shouldn't have had them enabled
in the first place?
Thanks again
My version of lvm2 (-static) has no dependencies to /usr libraries.
equery files lvm2 | while read line; do test -x $line ldd $line;
done | awk '{print $3}' | sort -u
Regards,
Florian Philipp
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Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags for lvm2?
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:07:38 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: So, the question becomes, why did these change? I do have /user on a separate LVM partition, so, is this something I should worry about? The static use flag builds a separate lvm.static all-in-one binary more suitable for use in an initramfs. -- Neil Bothwick Don't put all your hypes in one home page. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags for lvm2?
On 2013-02-10 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:07:38 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: So, the question becomes, why did these change? I do have /user on a separate LVM partition, so, is this something I should worry about? The static use flag builds a separate lvm.static all-in-one binary more suitable for use in an initramfs. Thanks Neil... Now that I'm looking at the USE flags that were used for the current install, I'm confused... Here's what IUSE says are enabled for the currently installed lvm2: readline +static +static-libs clvm cman +lvm1 selinux But... emerge output shows: [ebuild U ] sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.97-r1 [2.02.88] USE=lvm1 readline thin%* udev%* (-clvm) (-cman) (-selinux) -static* -static-libs* 1,166 kB The only ones showing as changed (in green and with asterisks by them) are -static and -static-libs... So, why do clvm, cman and selinux all show as not previously used according to emerge output (in blue, with a '-' in front of them? Confusing...
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags for lvm2?
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:40:00 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: Here's what IUSE says are enabled for the currently installed lvm2: readline +static +static-libs clvm cman +lvm1 selinux IUSE shows the flags that were available to that build, USE shows the flags that were used. -- Neil Bothwick I just took an IQ test. The results were negative. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:29:47AM -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote If anyone can suggest a good set of minimal use flags, I would be most thankful Here's mine. Note that some flags (mmx, sse, and sse2) are cpu-specific. My machine is a general-purpose desktop. USE=-* 3dnow X a52 aac alsa bzip2 cdr dga dio divx4linux dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode exif ffmpeg flac fortran gb gif gtk2 imlib jpeg maildir mikmod mime mmap mmx mng mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl plotutils png posix quicktime readline sdl sharedmem slang sockets sse sse2 theora threads tiff truetype vcd vorbis win32codecs wmf xpm xv zlib In addition, here's my /etc/portage/package.use # If you don't specify motif here or in USE, the xpdf ebuild only # installs the libraries, but not the /usr/bin/xpdf executable!!! app-text/xpdf motif media-gfx/gimp doc media-gfx/imagemagick doc media-libs/win32codecs real media-video/mplayer custom-cflags i8x0 real 3dnowext mmxext net-misc/wget ssl net-nntp/slrn uudeview sys-libs/glibc userlocales www-client/w3m -X -imlib x11-base/xorg-x11 bitmap-fonts font-server truetype-fonts type1-fonts # If it's going to be a rescue package, it better work standalone # when libraries get broken. sys-apps/busybox static -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 23:48, Jonathan Chocron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP': Le Mercredi 17 Mai 2006 18:01, Jeremy Olexa a écrit : I would start with the defaults, eg. leave USE= (blank) in make.conf and then start editing package.use to modify them from there. type emerge --info to see ALL of the use flags that are being used Yes, USE= is a good start. However, one has to take into account that portage adds use flags while going through the emerge process. For example, if you install mysql in order to use it with amaroK, mysql would, after that emerge be turned on as a global useflag. Actually, there was some noise about this and I believe it (auto-USE) has gone away. It was confusing to new users and poorly documented. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh pgpfh1mHvMs5x.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP
On Thu, 18 May 2006 06:48:44 +0200, Jonathan Chocron wrote: Yes, USE= is a good start. However, one has to take into account that portage adds use flags while going through the emerge process. For example, if you install mysql in order to use it with amaroK, mysql would, after that emerge be turned on as a global useflag. Dynamic USE flags have been removed from portage 2.1, thankfully. -- Neil Bothwick You couldn't get a job as a firing squad target. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP
Le Jeudi 18 Mai 2006 10:22, Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Thu, 18 May 2006 06:48:44 +0200, Jonathan Chocron wrote: Yes, USE= is a good start. However, one has to take into account that portage adds use flags while going through the emerge process. For example, if you install mysql in order to use it with amaroK, mysql would, after that emerge be turned on as a global useflag. Dynamic USE flags have been removed from portage 2.1, thankfully. That's exactly right, but I was assuming he used the stable version of portage. I now use unstable, precisely because they removed that feature ! Cheers, Jonathan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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Le Jeudi 18 Mai 2006 10:22, Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Thu, 18 May 2006 06:48:44 +0200, Jonathan Chocron wrote: Yes, USE= is a good start. However, one has to take into account that portage adds use flags while going through the emerge process. For example, if you install mysql in order to use it with amaroK, mysql would, after that emerge be turned on as a global useflag. Dynamic USE flags have been removed from portage 2.1, thankfully. That's exactly right, but I was assuming he used the stable version of portage. I now use unstable, precisely because they removed that feature ! Cheers, Jonathan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list . -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP
Hi, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks - I have a major problem brewing here im afraid: I have several systems that I had originally built with the Gentoo installer disk -- As such they have a very large group of use flags, and a fairly large genkernel. In wanting to lean them out and optimize them for running, went in, rebuilt the kernel, and apparently with a bad understanding of how portage and the USE flags interact, removed all the use flags, changed them to: The default genkernel options/modules has nothing to do with used USE flags. But it's a bloat of course. Use only what you need. USE=-* You'll need at least 4-5 USE flags in order to get a working system. IIRC some are readline ncurses ..., search the ML archives for minimal USE flags or something similar. and ran emerge -e world. The processes have all failed, and now I have broken systems -- for example, eterm wont start at all, nor will it build on a re-install, firefox is messed up (the fonts look funny) and im starting to panic. Is there any way short of rebuilding these systems to get things working right again? Thanks TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 HTH.Rumen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP
On 5/17/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks - I have a major problem brewing here im afraid: I have several systems that I had originally built with the Gentoo installer disk -- As such they have a very large group of use flags, and a fairly large genkernel. In wanting to lean them out and optimize them for running, went in, rebuilt the kernel, and apparently with a bad genkernel does not use USE flags, so, that's not related, probably. Someone will tell if I'm wrong. understanding of how portage and the USE flags interact, removed all the use flags, changed them to: USE=-* Heh, once I tried that... Its better leave it empty than putting this. You CAN put -*, but then you would have to create a fairly large packages.use in order to get a working system. That includes every package listed in emerge -pv world with an entry. Remove that option, start with minimal USE flags and reemerge world. You're lucky you didn't try emerge -e system after that. and ran emerge -e world. The processes have all failed, and now I have broken systems -- for example, eterm wont start at all, nor will it build on a re-install, firefox is messed up (the fonts look funny) and im starting to panic. Is there any way short of rebuilding these systems to get things working right again? You're lucky that you still have a working system after all. You even get a working portage, so, nothing to worry about. Fix your flags and reemerge world. -- 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
RE: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP
On 5/17/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks - I have a major problem brewing here im afraid: I have several systems that I had originally built with the Gentoo installer disk -- As such they have a very large group of use flags, and a fairly large genkernel. In wanting to lean them out and optimize them for running, went in, rebuilt the kernel, and apparently with a bad genkernel does not use USE flags, so, that's not related, probably. Someone will tell if I'm wrong. understanding of how portage and the USE flags interact, removed all the use flags, changed them to: USE=-* Heh, once I tried that... Its better leave it empty than putting this. You CAN put -*, but then you would have to create a fairly large packages.use in order to get a working system. That includes every package listed in emerge -pv world with an entry. Remove that option, start with minimal USE flags and reemerge world. You're lucky you didn't try emerge -e system after that. and ran emerge -e world. The processes have all failed, and now I have broken systems -- for example, eterm wont start at all, nor will it build on a re-install, firefox is messed up (the fonts look funny) and im starting to panic. Is there any way short of rebuilding these systems to get things working right again? You're lucky that you still have a working system after all. You even get a working portage, so, nothing to worry about. Fix your flags and reemerge world. -- [Timothy A. Holmes] Turns out all 5 systems are totally broke - I will be rebuilding all of them -- If anyone can suggest a good set of minimal use flags, I would be most thankful Tim Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timothy A. Holmes wrote: On 5/17/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks - I have a major problem brewing here im afraid: I have several systems that I had originally built with the Gentoo installer disk -- As such they have a very large group of use flags, and a fairly large genkernel. In wanting to lean them out and optimize them for running, went in, rebuilt the kernel, and apparently with a bad genkernel does not use USE flags, so, that's not related, probably. Someone will tell if I'm wrong. understanding of how portage and the USE flags interact, removed all the use flags, changed them to: USE=-* Heh, once I tried that... Its better leave it empty than putting this. You CAN put -*, but then you would have to create a fairly large packages.use in order to get a working system. That includes every package listed in emerge -pv world with an entry. Remove that option, start with minimal USE flags and reemerge world. You're lucky you didn't try emerge -e system after that. and ran emerge -e world. The processes have all failed, and now I have broken systems -- for example, eterm wont start at all, nor will it build on a re-install, firefox is messed up (the fonts look funny) and im starting to panic. Is there any way short of rebuilding these systems to get things working right again? You're lucky that you still have a working system after all. You even get a working portage, so, nothing to worry about. Fix your flags and reemerge world. -- [Timothy A. Holmes] Turns out all 5 systems are totally broke - I will be rebuilding all of them -- If anyone can suggest a good set of minimal use flags, I would be most thankful Tim I would start with the defaults, eg. leave USE= (blank) in make.conf and then start editing package.use to modify them from there. type emerge --info to see ALL of the use flags that are being used Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 - -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office: EE/CS 1-201 CS/IT Systems Staff University of Minnesota -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEa0jTFN7pD9kMi/URAnE1AJkBny012MKtS+bH2m3CPNCKbVDRrACeMrxp I+NTYvs8TW/x/daMQt/7aRM= =+XcQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP
Jeremy Olexa wrote: I would start with the defaults, eg. leave USE= (blank) in make.conf and then start editing package.use to modify them from there. type emerge --info to see ALL of the use flags that are being used -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office: EE/CS 1-201 CS/IT Systems Staff University of Minnesota The way I always do is this, find what I want to install, in your case emerge -e world, and add the -vp option. It will then tell you what flags each package will use. I then go to /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc and find the flag, they are in alphabetical order, and see what it does and if I need it or not. If not, I add the flag with a - in front to disable it. If I see something it is not going to compile in that I need, I add it to my USE line. You can also use the package.use file in /etc/portage too. Then it will only apply to that specific package. Either way does the same thing but one is global and affects all packages while the other only affect that one package. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) Oh, if you are in comand line and need to scroll through the list, try this: emerge -evp world | less without the quotes of course. You can use the page up and down keys with that. Works here anyway. You can switch to another console to edit your USE line and use another to view the use.desc file. Do I make sense at all?? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world -- Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP
Le Mercredi 17 Mai 2006 18:01, Jeremy Olexa a écrit : Timothy A. Holmes wrote: On 5/17/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks - I have a major problem brewing here im afraid: I have several systems that I had originally built with the Gentoo installer disk -- As such they have a very large group of use flags, and a fairly large genkernel. In wanting to lean them out and optimize them for running, went in, rebuilt the kernel, and apparently with a bad genkernel does not use USE flags, so, that's not related, probably. Someone will tell if I'm wrong. understanding of how portage and the USE flags interact, removed all the use flags, changed them to: USE=-* Heh, once I tried that... Its better leave it empty than putting this. You CAN put -*, but then you would have to create a fairly large packages.use in order to get a working system. That includes every package listed in emerge -pv world with an entry. Remove that option, start with minimal USE flags and reemerge world. You're lucky you didn't try emerge -e system after that. and ran emerge -e world. The processes have all failed, and now I have broken systems -- for example, eterm wont start at all, nor will it build on a re-install, firefox is messed up (the fonts look funny) and im starting to panic. Is there any way short of rebuilding these systems to get things working right again? You're lucky that you still have a working system after all. You even get a working portage, so, nothing to worry about. Fix your flags and reemerge world. -- [Timothy A. Holmes] Turns out all 5 systems are totally broke - I will be rebuilding all of them -- If anyone can suggest a good set of minimal use flags, I would be most thankful Tim I would start with the defaults, eg. leave USE= (blank) in make.conf and then start editing package.use to modify them from there. type emerge --info to see ALL of the use flags that are being used Yes, USE= is a good start. However, one has to take into account that portage adds use flags while going through the emerge process. For example, if you install mysql in order to use it with amaroK, mysql would, after that emerge be turned on as a global useflag. If one wants to keep a clean system, they have to compensate for this behaviour, and check, at the end of an emerge process*, that the list of useflags has remained unchanged. *(NOTE : not at the end of the merge of every single package, but at the end of the merge of one list of package, since emerge reads the USE variable once at the beginning of the merge process, even if there are 20 packages on the list). Oh, and unless you are a developper, there are some defaults useflags you can turn off, like fortran, for example. One last thing, I would suggest using euse, which is part of gentoolkit, to check the meaning of a useflage. It searches both use.desc and use.local.desc. -- Jonathan Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office: EE/CS 1-201 CS/IT Systems Staff University of Minnesota -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???
Use euse utility to query about USE flags. emerge gentoolkit euse -i flag1 [flag2 flag3] or just euse for options. On 5/8/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would someone know what the following two USE flags do? latin and aio It seems latin1 relates to mysql and aio relates to slocate... But what do they do? Thank you, in advance, Jerry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 04:58, Jerry McBride wrote: The suggested equery wasn't much help # equery belongs equery [ Searching for file(s) equery in *... ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre4 (/usr/bin/equery) app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre4 (/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre4/equery) -- Bo Andresen pgpnYRgF8ELHF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???
On Tue, 9 May 2006 20:06:53 -0600 Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not even the most dogged user is going to read through every flag and decide if he wants it set or not. I do and set specific sets of flags for each machine I run. It does take about 30 min. and I do have to check for changes - USE flags going away, new ones, every six months or so, but a review is always a good thing. So, for example, Joe Hacker, who has a laptop and a server can explicitly unset all multimedia and office/desktop flags in ufed for his server while explicitly enabling just the server flags he needs while on his laptop he can enable all development flags and pick the desktop flags he wants in a matter of seconds rather than minutes because the desktop flags are all in the same catergory. You could also allow users even greater specificity over their flags with ufed by giving them the option to set flags on a per package basis, although this may be more effort than it's worth. You might want to peruse this GLEP - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0029.html It was withdrawn, but perhaps that was because other tasks took a higher priority and this needed to wait for them to complete. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???
Justin Findlay wrote: On 5/8/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would you recommend changing USE flags or making them better? You should post suggestions to the devs. I think they need some fixing as well. However, I haven't really thought much about it and so have no real useful suggestions, yet. OK, let's think about this for a second. I'm just shooting from the hip here. It may very well be that I don't have any substantial improvements for USE flags. but I think it would be easier and faster to set/unset use flags if they were catergorized. I like it. Sounds like a good idea to me ;) Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???
On 5/8/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would someone know what the following two USE flags do? latin and aio It seems latin1 relates to mysql and aio relates to slocate... But what do they do? There's a neat little utility called equery (from gentoolkit) that will give you descriptions of local package USE flags, so in your case try, $ equery uses mysql and $ equery uses slocate and enjoy. (: Alternatively, you can grep for latin1 or aio in /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc to see all the packages that have USE flags with those particular names. Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???
On Monday 08 May 2006 22:43, Justin Findlay wrote: On 5/8/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would someone know what the following two USE flags do? latin and aio It seems latin1 relates to mysql and aio relates to slocate... But what do they do? There's a neat little utility called equery (from gentoolkit) that will give you descriptions of local package USE flags, so in your case try, $ equery uses mysql and $ equery uses slocate and enjoy. (: Alternatively, you can grep for latin1 or aio in /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc to see all the packages that have USE flags with those particular names. The suggested equery wasn't much help, but grep-ing use.local.desc was a gold mine. Thanks! I had already looked into use.desc and I stopped there and posted my request for help. Why is it, that use.desc contains less information about the use flags than use.local.desc? Other than that, thank you very much. Jerry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???
On 5/8/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The suggested equery wasn't much help, but grep-ing use.local.desc was a gold mine. Thanks! I had already looked into use.desc and I stopped there and posted my request for help. Why is it, that use.desc contains less information about the use flags than use.local.desc? The difference is that use.local.desc contains flags that are local to specific ebuilds while the flags in use.desc are system wide flags. Some flags in use.local.desc are common across 2 or even more ebuilds. I don't know why those flags aren't global flags. There may even be flags in use.local.desc that share the same name but mean very different things to different packages. Honestly, I think USE flags, as powerful as they are, are the cruftiest part of Gentoo and could be so much more powerful and ought to be so much less clumsy. Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???
Justin Findlay wrote: Honestly, I think USE flags, as powerful as they are, are the cruftiest part of Gentoo and could be so much more powerful and ought to be so much less clumsy. Justin How would you recommend changing USE flags or making them better? You should post suggestions to the devs. I think they need some fixing as well. However, I haven't really thought much about it and so have no real useful suggestions, yet. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
