[gentoo-user] Changes in USE flags - perhaps related to 2006.1?

[gentoo-user] Changes in USE flags - perhaps related to 2006.1?

[Mick]

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I moved onto 2006.1 profile, updated gcc, remerged system and now as I am 
getting ready to remerge world, suddenly I noticed:

-kde, -qt, -opengl, -xmms, -png, -gif. 

Most of these were in my make.conf (well, at least kde & qt were there).  Now 
there's a number of packages that will be compiled without them.  What's 
changed and why?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Changes in USE flags - perhaps related to 2006.1?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Saturday 02 September 2006 01:05, Mick wrote:
> I moved onto 2006.1 profile, updated gcc, remerged system and now as I am
> getting ready to remerge world, suddenly I noticed:

Consider switching to the newly introduced desktop profile (2006.1/desktop).
There is a server profile too but that doesn't seem to be what you're after
here..

[snipping flags that are enabled by the desktop profile]

> -qt, 

This is replaced by two use flags namely qt3 and qt4. They are enabled by
desktop too.

> -xmms

You might want to take notice of [1]. xmms will probably go to an overlay in
the future. You may enable the flag in make.conf though...

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.dev/tree/browse_frm/thread/d55c71aff656df3f/48bd9159e1e7a430

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Re: [gentoo-user] Changes in USE flags - perhaps related to 2006.1?

[Daniel Iliev]

Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Saturday 02 September 2006 01:05, Mick wrote:
>   
>> I moved onto 2006.1 profile, updated gcc, remerged system and now as I am
>> getting ready to remerge world, suddenly I noticed:
>>     
>
> Consider switching to the newly introduced desktop profile (2006.1/desktop).
> There is a server profile too but that doesn't seem to be what you're after
> here..
>
> [snipping flags that are enabled by the desktop profile]
>
>   
>> -qt, 
>>     
>
> This is replaced by two use flags namely qt3 and qt4. They are enabled by
> desktop too.
>
>   
>> -xmms
>>     
>
> You might want to take notice of [1]. xmms will probably go to an overlay in
> the future. You may enable the flag in make.conf though...
>
> [1] http://groups.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.dev/tree/browse_frm/thread/d55c71aff656df3f/48bd9159e1e7a430
>
>   
Of course its gentoo and therefore there is yet another approach:
USE="-* kde qt ....'all flags that you want'"
This way release changes wouldn't affect your USE flags.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Changes in USE flags - perhaps related to 2006.1?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Saturday 02 September 2006 07:17, Daniel Iliev wrote:
> Of course its gentoo and therefore there is yet another approach:
> USE="-* kde qt ....'all flags that you want'"
> This way release changes wouldn't affect your USE flags.

Or simply don't upgrade your profile until the old profile gets deprecated and 
portage starts spitting warnings about it. auto use isn't around anymore so 
this is only relevant when upgrading your profile...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Changes in USE flags - perhaps related to 2006.1?

[Mick]

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On Saturday 02 September 2006 06:23, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Saturday 02 September 2006 07:17, Daniel Iliev wrote:
> > Of course its gentoo and therefore there is yet another approach:
> > USE="-* kde qt ....'all flags that you want'"
> > This way release changes wouldn't affect your USE flags.
>
> Or simply don't upgrade your profile until the old profile gets deprecated
> and portage starts spitting warnings about it. auto use isn't around
> anymore so this is only relevant when upgrading your profile...

Thanks guys, I hadn't looked into the 2006.1 directory to see the 
desktop/server permutations.  I am sorry to hear xmms is coming to an end - 
it has served me really well on my old machines.  Is there an accord on a 
current suitable alternative?  I found xmms relatively light on resources 
compared to say, xine derivatives.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Changes in USE flags - perhaps related to 2006.1?

[Daniel Pielmeier]

> Thanks guys, I hadn't looked into the 2006.1 directory to see the
> desktop/server permutations.  I am sorry to hear xmms is coming to an end -
> it has served me really well on my old machines.  Is there an accord on a
> current suitable alternative?  I found xmms relatively light on resources
> compared to say, xine derivatives.

You can try audacious it is based on bmp and xmms. There is also bmpx
and xmms2. Only audacious and bmpx are in portage. I think they are
all similar to xmms! For me I have choosen audacious!
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Re: [gentoo-user] Changes in USE flags - perhaps related to 2006.1?

[Mick]

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On Saturday 02 September 2006 14:49, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> > Thanks guys, I hadn't looked into the 2006.1 directory to see the
> > desktop/server permutations.  I am sorry to hear xmms is coming to an end
> > - it has served me really well on my old machines.  Is there an accord on
> > a current suitable alternative?  I found xmms relatively light on
> > resources compared to say, xine derivatives.
>
> You can try audacious it is based on bmp and xmms. There is also bmpx
> and xmms2. Only audacious and bmpx are in portage. I think they are
> all similar to xmms! For me I have choosen audacious!

Thanks, from the links provided it seems that soon(?) xmms will be abandoned, 
with xmms2 not yet ready for mass consumption.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Changes in USE flags - perhaps related to 2006.1?

[Philip Webb]

060902 Daniel Iliev wrote:
> USE="-* kde qt ....'all flags that you want'"
> This way release changes wouldn't affect your USE flags.

That's what I've been doing for a while & it seems to work.
>From my  /etc/make.conf :

  # PP 060507 : reorg'd using 2006.0 & "-*"
  # PP 060603 : drop 'pam'
  # PP 060701 : add 'nptl nptlonly' for glibc-2.4
  # PP 060702 : chg 'qt' -> 'qt3' ('qt' ~ longer valid)
  # PP 060705 : drop 'mozilla'
  USE="-* apm bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdr crypt cups dri foomaticdb
     gdbm gif gnutls gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib java javascript jpeg kde
     libwww lm_sensors mime motif mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly
     nsplugin nvidia opengl pcre pdf perl plotutils png pop python
     qt3 readline scanner session slang ssl
     tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb X xml xv zlib"

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