Re: [gentoo-user] tunning use flag

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

In the fluxbox case it integrates KDE with fluxbox.  So, when you run
startkde from a terminal in fluxbox, or you launch KDE applications,
you get System Tray notifications nicely fitting in the fluxbox slit.

On 13/04/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
> On 4/13/06, Pawel K <pawlaczus@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > How can I find out what I loose by disabling specific
> > flag ?
> > equery uses <pks>
> > shows general info only.
>
> If you are exceptionally lucky, "grep -e "^kde " -e ":kde"
> /usr/portage/profiles/use.*desc" will tell you what it does, or you
> can determine this from the ebuild comments or script.
>
> If you are very lucky, a google search with the appropriate terms will
> tell you.  You need to know that "econf ... $(use_enable kde)
> translates to "./configure ... --enable-kde".  So a google for
> "fluxbox configure --enable-kde" might help.
>
> If you are a little lucky, there will be a README or INSTALL file in
> the source tarball that will explain exactly what the configure
> options do.
>
> If you have any luck at all, you can interrupt the compile process, cd
> to the package build directory in /var/tmp/portage, and run
> ./configure --help to get documentation about what the option does.
>
> But in the normal case, you have to read the source to really
> understand what impact a use flag has.  Or experiment with it on and
> off.
>
> Cheers,
> -Richard
>
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Regards,
Mick

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