Re: [gentoo-user] Giving Gentoo Another Go

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:09:14 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> > You will develop your way of doing things over time, and that way
> > could change as your needs do. Using your example of package.use,
> > moving USE flags from package.use to make.conf is an easy enough task
> > if you need to change. I tend to put them n package.use to start with
> > then migrate to make.conf if I find I am using the same flag on
> > several packages.  
> 
> A simple way to start off is to see whether the USE flag is listed in 
> /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc or use.local.desc. If the former, it's
> likely to affect many packages in a typical system so put it in
> make.conf; if the latter, it's likely to affect only a few of your
> packages so put it in package.use. You can always move it later if you
> want to, as Neil says.


app-portage/euses is an easy way of looking up USE flags, give it the
name of a flag and it shows you the description. If it shows one or more
package names, the USE flag is defined in local.desc.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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