Re: [gentoo-user] emerge inforamtion

[Teresa and Dale <teendale@vista-express.com>]

contiemilio@virgilio.it wrote:

>USE flags doubts (again).
>
>If I run this command:
>
>emerge -pv hplip
>
>the output is:
>[ebuild   R   ] net-print/hplip-0.9.7-r3  +X +cups +foomaticdb -ppds +qt 
>+scanner* -snmp +usb 0 kB
>
>There are 5 flags prefixed by a plus and red coloured (+X, +cups, +foomaticdb, 
>+qt and +usb). These flags are already set. Right?
>  
>

The plus sign means that it will be compiled with support for that
flag.  It means you can use that basically.

>There are 2 flags prefixed by a menus and blue coloured (-ppds and -snmp). 
>These flags are not set. But, should I set them?
>  
>

It depends on whether you will use them or not.  This is what that flag
is for:  "ppds - Adds support for automatically generated ppd (printing
driver) files."  If you need it, edit make.conf file and put it in the
USE= line.  The snmp is this:  "snmp - Adds support for the Simple
Network Management Protocol if available."  You can get the same info
from here:  /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc

>Finally there is anoter flag prefixed by a plus and green coloured 
>(+scanner*). What does the trailing * mean? What does the green colour mean?
>
>Thank you a lot in advance.
>
>emilio
>
>  
>

If I recall correctly, that * means it has been changed since the
program was instaled.  If you changed some flags recently, you may want
to do a emerge -Nvp world to see what else has changed.  If everything
looks OK, take off the p and let it recompile those for you so it will
work correctly.

Hope that helps.

Dale
:-)
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