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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GtLLF-0000SQ-GN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:51:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBA9oMgx019880; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:50:22 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.236]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBA9kEUH001762 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:46:14 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i30so2177601wxd for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:46:13 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=EzSiTT4Viw+P0hEfT/oUBOe6gJVJ/uIfcnP7idEz1RWbMYPodoDN45+SrbQHcrHh0XiSreCtczx7pzPJ+HuPBPFIM+H5PbOIt2EiEi1CEHfjeldbmo8q2fNMRTNwKrMCyQisVB33vuTUuxwuw3gRheomvch3IvZ97/Ff6UEI/lM= Received: by 10.70.34.3 with SMTP id h3mr9521698wxh.1165743973610; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:46:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from ymir.donotfeedtheray.com ( [124.243.156.201]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id i20sm5820780wxd.2006.12.10.01.46.12; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:46:13 -0800 (PST) From: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE Flags Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:16:05 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: In-Reply-To: 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612102016.05886.dystopianray@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: be54062d-23ed-4b04-87a4-886706ad751a X-Archives-Hash: 338b6f7c4186ddd534d6d9b014b16cfe On Sunday, 10 December 2006 20:05, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > Hello, > > First time poster, so if I mess up anything do tell me. I have been > emerging packages and trimming the USE flags individually by adding USE=" " > in front of the command. Is this bad practice or in any way different to > adding the use flags in /etc/portage/packages.conf? If it is, is there a > way of dumping all the use flags for all my currently installed ebuilds > into packages.conf? > > Thanks in advance, > Vlad Yes this is very bad practice, which you'll notice if you try running 'emerge -avuDN world' to update everything. Put global USE flags in /etc/make.conf and package specific use flags in /etc/portage/package.use Read through man 5 portage. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list