From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E6J9D-0006tK-97 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 02:31:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7K2SNXV005867; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 02:28:23 GMT Received: from not69box.atlantic.net (not69box.atlantic.net [209.208.121.25]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7K2JuXU009630 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 02:19:57 GMT Received: (qmail 9053 invoked by uid 0); 20 Aug 2005 02:20:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO croatus) (209.208.34.71) by not69box.atlantic.net with SMTP; 20 Aug 2005 02:20:12 -0000 From: "John Dangler" To: Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:19:33 -0400 Message-ID: <031401c5a52d$b03f58a0$0501a8c0@croatus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 In-Reply-To: <43068C6D.5010202@gmx.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j7K2JuXU009630 X-Archives-Salt: 10a4f8bc-0519-4bf2-8ae7-9d5a8e39824d X-Archives-Hash: 20f4f9ab9d26d56aa5c5f9de54f2f224 The list of possible flags is somewhat overwhelming. And many of them, I wouldn't really know if I need them or not. So far, since I only have the base system running, I'm trying to get everything I want to have sans a graphic environment going, so I'm doing USE="-X" with the system level apps (although I don't know if that's the best plan for something like cdrtools/dvdrtools). I did find the defaults (thanks!) and have added those as comments in my make.conf file just for my own reference. I figure that the next step (aside from the reading of the online docs) is to get cd tools and anti-virus (clam looks good) running. At the point that I think I have everything at this level, I intend to back it up (jic), and then install X, sound, and get a graphical environment running - at least that looks to be the most logical next steps... I really appreciate the feedback!!! John D -----Original Message----- From: Marco Matthies [mailto:marco-ml@gmx.net] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 9:51 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags John Dangler wrote: > I have just installed a basic 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6) on my laptop. I'm > trying to get my arms around the USE flags. I found a set of 'default' > settings (I think) under /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults . From > what I've read in the gentoo documentation, this seems to be a list of > default USE= flags. What I'd like to try and get to is, a difference > between what's there and the 'total' list, and why would I add others to my > own make.conf file? The relevant part in the docs: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=2 A list of all USE flags: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list