RE: [gentoo-dev] mplayer with dvdread -- use flag comment

["Riyad Kalla" <rsk@u.arizona.edu>]

After reading your email I found out what was causing my hearache
(make.defaults)! I hadn't thought about checking that as I didn't
realize the use flags were hierarchical in that fashion...

Does make.defaults include all of the use flags? If I modified
make.defaults (I know you just said not to, but...) to either include
nothing, or include everything, wouldn't I effectively be implementing
the behavior I just asked for? And then fine tune it with my make.conf?

Thanks!

-Riyad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Schlemmer [mailto:azarah@gentoo.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 2:16 PM
> To: Riyad Kalla
> Cc: 'M. Zuelsdorff'; Gentoo-Dev
> Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] mplayer with dvdread -- use flag comment
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 22:43, Riyad Kalla wrote:
> > I'm starting to feel more like this, WGT the use flags... when I 
> > installed gentoo on a server here at work, I left the use 
> flags alone, 
> > figuring "hey it's a server" but then I noticed that 
> certain packages 
> > WANTED to install some rediculous amounts of optional 
> requirements, so 
> > I started using "-" use flags, and that seemed to work. 
> Then I noticed 
> > other packages building without supports for things I needed (like 
> > CUPS). Anywya, after compiling and recompiling KDE about 3 times, 
> > mysql twice, qt 3 times and a few utilities I started to think that 
> > before installing a program, I'd rather just see the "configure 
> > --help" options and decide what I wanted and what I 
> didn't... this use 
> > flag business is kinda trickie... I couldn't imagine trying 
> to code to 
> > take it all into account. Has there ever been talk to get 
> rid of use 
> > flags and tackle optional package params in a different way?
> > 
> 
> The logical would have been:
> 
>   - I want a server, so no X, sound, KDE, Gnome, etc, so add
>     to USE: -X -gnome -kde -xv -alsa -oss -esd -avi -mikmod -mpeg
>             -oggvorbis -opengl -qt -quicktime -sdl -spell -svga
>             -truetype -xmms
>   - It will be samba print server, so we need cups, so add: cups
>   - etc
> 
> So USE will be:
> 
> USE="-X -gnome -kde -xv -alsa -oss -esd -avi -mikmod -mpeg 
> -oggvorbis -opengl -qt -quicktime -sdl -spell -svga -truetype -xmms"
> 
> No cups is needed, as its already in the default USE flags.  
> What those are, look at:
> 
>   /etc/make.profile/make.defaults
> 
> Note that you should not edit this file by hand.
> 
>   
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> 
> Martin Schlemmer
> Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
> Cape Town, South Africa
> 
> 
> 
> 


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