Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaner USE variable in /etc/make.conf

[Peter Kelly <linuxpete@houston.rr.com>]

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 06:04, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I have a long USE variable (starts with "-*", so I enter stuff
> manually.  At one point it got to be something like...
>
> USE="-* 3dnow X a52 aac alsa bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr dga dio divx4linux dri
> dvd dvdr dvdread encode exif ffmpeg flac fortran gb gif gtk2 imlib jpeg
> maildir mikmod mime mmap mmx mng mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin
> offensive ogg opengl plotutils png posix quicktime readline sdl sharedmem
> slang sockets sse sse2 theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts
> type1-fonts vcd vorbis win32codecs wmf xpm xv zlib"
>
>   BLEAGH!  I've now broken it up into logical groupings...
>
> USE_cpu="3dnow mmx sse sse2"
> USE_font="bitmap-fonts truetype-fonts type1-fonts"
> USE_gui="X dga dri gtk2 opengl sdl xv"
> USE_multimedia="a52 aac alsa divx4linux encode exif ffmpeg flac gif jpeg
> mikmod mng mp3 mpeg ogg png quicktime theora tiff vcd vorbis win32codecs
> wmf xpm" USE_misc="bzip2 cdr dio dvd dvdr dvdread fortran gb imlib maildir
> mime mmap ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive plotutils posix readline
> sharedmem slang sockets threads zlib"
>
>   which is followed by...
>
> USE="-* ${USE_cpu} ${USE_font} ${USE_gui} ${USE_multimedia} ${USE_misc}"
>
Glad to see that using "-*" made your life easier.

Peter

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