From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4327 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Apr 2003 21:18:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 5463 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2003 21:18:48 -0000 From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: azarah@gentoo.org To: Riyad Kalla Cc: "'M. Zuelsdorff'" , Gentoo-Dev In-Reply-To: <003901c2ffa1$e5d38f60$d628c480@rskwork> References: <003901c2ffa1$e5d38f60$d628c480@rskwork> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-VYOPITWwU5RWnysTjyao" Organization: Message-Id: <1050009350.20070.22.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4- Date: 10 Apr 2003 23:15:50 +0200 Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] mplayer with dvdread -- use flag comment X-Archives-Salt: fa2c6f03-712c-42bf-b295-09fb265311a3 X-Archives-Hash: 398a5e23103f57fa75123bef8166674e --=-VYOPITWwU5RWnysTjyao Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? >=20 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=3D"-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. =20 Regards, --=20 Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa --=-VYOPITWwU5RWnysTjyao Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+ld8CqburzKaJYLYRAvBgAJ4y8pnV4ICKlWjOPe407f3el4y26wCfYJGS 8vWiQLMnxwNpDUJHqdbMd9A= =t1e1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-VYOPITWwU5RWnysTjyao--