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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GPBcQ-00071M-BZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:24:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8I5NwTC031503; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:23:58 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8I5Jq1j029259 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:19:52 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C86EC64628 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:19:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26504-06 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:19:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBCEA64486 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:19:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GPBXf-0002Cs-H8 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:19:39 +0200 Received: from mue-88-130-100-246.dsl.tropolys.de ([88.130.100.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:19:39 +0200 Received: from listen by mue-88-130-100-246.dsl.tropolys.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:19:39 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Alexander Skwar Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: detailed information about USE flags? Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:19:36 +0200 Organization: =?UTF-8?B?LsK3Lg==?= Message-ID: <2446489.YLcvmUsvEf@m-id.message-center.info> References: <7bef1f890609172156s1879f7d9o27f064f7cdf7d9b5@mail.gmail.com> 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 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mue-88-130-100-246.dsl.tropolys.de User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.57 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.029, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -2.57 X-Spam-Level: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k8I5NwTQ031503 X-Archives-Salt: aa6de20c-65fe-4f36-b97e-db9c40e0470f X-Archives-Hash: 36b86f444a8287fed17ca20e5cd7e95e =C2=B7 Alan E. Davis : > I don't want to have to > do emerge --newuse yadayada very often... ? --newuse is only needed, if you change global USE flags. There shouldn't be many flags you set globally, ie. in /etc/make.conf. Instead, set the USE flags in /etc/portage/package.use. > Can someone point me to more information on USE flags, I don't think your question can be answered "globally". What a USE flag does, is highly dependent upon the package which employs this flag. And generally, the name of the flag should be quite self explanatory - or at least the description should show, what it does (I use "euse -i $flag" to get the description). But if you need in detail information, you'll have to check out the ebuild and see what it does. Alexander Skwar --=20 "There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them" - Heisenberg --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list