On Sunday 10 December 2006 17:18, Vlad Dogaru wrote:
> On 12/10/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:35:18 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote:
> > > If it is, is there a way of dumping
> > > all the use flags for all my currently installed ebuilds into
> > > packages.conf?
> >
> > You really don't want to do that. you'd end up with an unmanageable mess
> > that completely overrides /etc/make.conf and your profile.
> >
> > If you run "emerge -puvDN world" you'll see all packages that are
> > installed with different USE flags to the current settings. Add these
> > to /etc/portage/package.use.
>
> I think this is exactly what I was looking for. I already have quite an
> extensive global USE list (read through the whole list and set/unset what I
> knew about). I only need to write the different, package-specific ones.
>
> Thanks to everyone for enlightening me on the issue,
> Vlad
To manage the global use flags, try profuse, it's a pretty good editor imho.

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