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 4.43) id 1E6Iao-0006fN-9v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 01:56:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7K1tBSZ032414; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 01:55:11 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7K1n9SC004510 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 01:49:09 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2005 01:49:25 -0000 Received: from c192039.adsl.hansenet.de (EHLO [192.168.2.189]) [213.39.192.39] by mail.gmx.net (mp024) with SMTP; 20 Aug 2005 03:49:25 +0200 X-Authenticated: #25576946 Message-ID: <43068C6D.5010202@gmx.net> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:50:37 +0200 From: Marco Matthies User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050723) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags References: <030901c5a520$a7fadfa0$0501a8c0@croatus> In-Reply-To: <030901c5a520$a7fadfa0$0501a8c0@croatus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 60c5e9d3-f85e-4e89-aa51-fed3a8c32bb6 X-Archives-Hash: 216613810fb0535664d5de1040316b6b John Dangler wrote: > I have just installed a basic 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6) on my laptop. I'm > trying to get my arms around the USE flags. I found a set of 'default' > settings (I think) under /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults . From > what I've read in the gentoo documentation, this seems to be a list of > default USE= flags. What I'd like to try and get to is, a difference > between what's there and the 'total' list, and why would I add others to my > own make.conf file? The relevant part in the docs: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=2 A list of all USE flags: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list