Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag

[Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:04:45 -0500
Jeremy Olexa wrote:

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> Nick Rout wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:30:26 +0530
> > Aniruddha Shankar wrote:
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> >> Willie Wong wrote:
> >>> Personally speaking, I suggest you emerge 'ufed'. 
> >> I moved from ufed to profuse, it's slightly better with multiple display
> >> interfaces (dialog/ncurses/gtk)
> >>
> >> cheers,
> > 
> > funnily enough I dislike the gtk interface and usually start it with 
> > 
> > DISPLAY= profuse
> > 
> > to fool it into thinking X is not available, so it runs in my konsole
> > 
> 
> Speaking of USE flags this is a PERFECT example of when to
> enable/disable a USE flag. If I was Nick and PREFERRED to start profuse
> without gtk support (aka ncurses) then I would re-emerge profuse WITHOUT
> the gtk USE flag. Thanks for giving some people an example of when to
> enable/disable USE flags, Nick.
> 
> DISCLAIMER: I don't use profuse but I assume that the gtk USE flag does
> exactly what I have explained. ;)


You are right and I did think that as i was typing the email! However
there are times when i like the gtk interface, its more a mood thing, so I am happy to leave the gtk flag for that ebuild :-)

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