Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag

[Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:44:35PM -0400, Penguin Lover sean squawked:
> I would like to fine tune my USE flags a bit more and have a question.
> 
> Currently I am emerging gaim, and as it proceeds I see gnome and
> evolution related items across the screen.
> 
> I am not running gnome desktop or evolution and could a -gnome and
> -evolution be placed in USE and would it cause any problems?

What you want, is to disable the eds use flag (USE="-eds"). It enables
support fo evolution data server, which, if you are not using
evolution or gnome, is not terribly useful. 

It might be a good idea to also have -gnome in your USE if you do not
use gnome at all. It shouldn't cause any problems. Anything that
explicitly depends on gnome would still bring in the needed libraries,
it is only stuff that have an optional dependency on gnome that would
get affected. 

Personally speaking, I suggest you emerge 'ufed'. It is a useflag
editor based on ncurses. It also displays a description of each flag.
Then I suggest that you go through the entire list and mark off the
ones you want and unmark the ones you don't want. It should be a
one-time affair, and could potentially save you lots of time later. 

W
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