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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G17RG-0004dA-8T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:05:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6DJwKOo006925; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:58:20 GMT Received: from ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.44]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6DJThwk002659 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:29:44 GMT Received: from crichton (cpe-24-175-85-22.houston.res.rr.com [24.175.85.22]) by ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6DJTgFi017260 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:29:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Peter Kelly To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaner USE variable in /etc/make.conf Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:29:42 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <20060711110416.GB6816@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20060711110416.GB6816@waltdnes.org> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607131429.42129.linuxpete@houston.rr.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Archives-Salt: dbfcceba-1a76-4cf1-a5f1-57c7341d3c79 X-Archives-Hash: 5b1481ac7105794d6ebf4f90c7d621a3 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 -- "I call Christianity the *one* great curse, the *one* great intrinsic depravity, the *one* great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, *petty* -- I call it the *one* mortal blemish of mankind." te-- Friedrich Nietzsche -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list