From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PBNlT-0003Lz-Tt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:23:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 61937E0979; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:22:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD2EE0979 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:22:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy10 with SMTP id 10so1057566ewy.40 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:22:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=dNA1L6TsgSBdVdrieV3iw0zq6if5eKR4Kz6ZyzfScls=; b=SEVPWfZ9u+AfUiwqveyeRcjpRU4fd2ashCEPZEalRd4B5e1+dLBUUucnrT2XMECM1Y uOyY+R7IUd33T2DVb4Gft0hHwxNcDufgdAwkEbkZur/dMTNxC667reUBAM3/MLHAEYFT RYl/Mysdlv4LFEw5wIa4J16MMbIBoPTXpEfqw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=HcsSdUUh1qWOXNTYjQkKHfVE+y3BbWU0duTVHlDz+ZNea0ZJPBvh6eukwCPW7J9BJR Ffp8DQfo/sdOTzXQsMlgsBNkbJKQ0Bv3NMNvRBRD/zy+VpSC+J0vWquGVbjacWmKKIMO QsKETWvww1sLsS/hi64kKNuGldwseT08Yvi1M= Received: by 10.14.45.72 with SMTP id o48mr6978257eeb.22.1288254129544; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-2-42.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.2.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b52sm580006eei.7.2010.10.28.01.22.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:22:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tracing use flags - how to? Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:22:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-ck; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <1288250339.28599.0@numa-i> In-Reply-To: <1288250339.28599.0@numa-i> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.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 Message-Id: <201010281022.43215.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: c095f9ca-56e5-4400-a293-73ed5caa2194 X-Archives-Hash: a70ba0452ce027ac564fc2d8f5a31a63 Apparently, though unproven, at 09:18 on Thursday 28 October 2010, Helmut Jarausch did opine thusly: > Hi, > > this might well we a FAQ but I couldn't find it. > > In the process of upgrading to xorg-server-1.8.2 I'd like to remove > the 'hal' use flag. > I have removed it in /etc/make.conf and added 'udev' instead. That will remove it globally from the entire system, which might not be what you want. IIRC k3b needs hal for instance to work correctly. > The xorg-server definitely doesn't have this use flag set in > /etc/portage/package.use > > Still, emerge -vp x11-base/xorg-server shows that it is going to use > the 'hal' but not the 'udev' flag. > > How to find out where this comes from. I usually read the ebuilds and grep directly through files to find this kind of stuff :-) I find it easier than remembering commands. The xorg-server ebuild says: IUSE_SERVERS="dmx kdrive xorg" IUSE="${IUSE_SERVERS} doc hal ipv6 minimal nptl tslib +udev" So it uses all those flags, and "udev" is on by default unless you explicitly say otherwise somewhere. > I haven't found anything in 'use.mask' in my profile > default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop Post the USE section from emerge --info, the output from emerge -vp x11-base/xorg-server. the output from grep -r udev /etc/portage/* grep -r hal /etc/portage/* and let's take it from there. Finding stuff in profiles is tricky, you have to search upwards through the directories, not downwards. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com