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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers
Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 09:36:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2637858.mvXUDI8C0e@wstn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <932af648-9b72-3114-f62a-812a9cc80be6@youngman.org.uk>

On Wednesday, 18 May 2022 22:26:44 BST Wol wrote:
> On 18/05/2022 15:22, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Somewhere around here I said I had too many USE flag staatements
> > under/etc/
> > portage, so I removed package.use and just set whatever flags were needed
> > to install all my packages.
> 
> If you make package.use a directory, you can do what I do, and try to
> have one file in package.use for each package I actually want installed.
> And if you qualify the packages with "current version" however you do
> that, then they'll expire regularly so you're forced to keep it
> up-to-date :-)

Yes, I do the same. I did wonder at the large number of files under 
package.use, though, which is why I thought it a good idea to prune them a 
bit. The consequences just spread further than I expected.   :(

-- 
Regards,
Peter.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-19  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-05 15:22 [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers Peter Humphrey
2022-05-05 16:21 ` Jack
2022-05-05 20:37   ` Michael
2022-05-06  7:59     ` Peter Humphrey
2022-05-06 12:24       ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2022-05-06 12:41         ` Peter Humphrey
2022-05-06 14:40         ` Daniel Frey
2022-05-07 17:02       ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2022-05-07 19:32         ` Jack
2022-05-08 18:02           ` Peter Humphrey
2022-05-09 13:56         ` karl
2022-05-09 14:38           ` Michael
2022-05-10  8:17             ` Peter Humphrey
2022-05-10  9:26               ` Michael
2022-05-10 10:29                 ` 3.5mm jacks (was Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers) karl
2022-05-10 10:59                   ` Michael
2022-05-10 12:00                 ` [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers Peter Humphrey
2022-05-10 19:06                   ` Michael
2022-05-11 10:54                   ` Peter Humphrey
2022-05-12 10:01               ` Peter Humphrey
2022-05-12 13:49                 ` Neil Bothwick
2022-05-12 14:50                   ` Peter Humphrey
2022-05-12  9:44             ` Peter Humphrey
2022-05-14 16:34 ` [SOLVED]Re: " Peter Humphrey
2022-05-18  8:51   ` Peter Humphrey
2022-05-18 10:02     ` Michael
2022-05-18 14:22       ` Peter Humphrey
2022-05-18 14:47         ` Michael
2022-05-18 21:26         ` Wol
2022-05-19  8:36           ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2022-06-12  7:38 ` FIXED " Peter Humphrey

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