From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M95ih-00027p-Rh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 23:06:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E0CFE0458; Tue, 26 May 2009 23:06:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.171]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A04BE0458 for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 23:06:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.30] (dslb-188-098-067-051.pools.arcor-ip.net [188.98.67.51]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKv1o-1M95if0ih7-000kGN; Wed, 27 May 2009 01:06:05 +0200 Message-ID: <4A1C75DE.3020302@konstantinhansen.de> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 01:06:06 +0200 From: KH User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090502) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Another USE question References: <4A1C72A5.1010905@konstantinhansen.de> <200905270059.40451.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200905270059.40451.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19a10EhPAn7F2FzyYrc+GRzhJbBtc33sz9a/Jl 2Dm+QTbum7Y4VLMZykn+5P+OnMCOCMRQwHPRrwDMh+ERK3ikW0 6GBqZnmd0oKAde2njottg== X-Archives-Salt: c802ae40-7af1-4cb5-92bf-c95f0dbc1c50 X-Archives-Hash: dfc16257dc6d2c427005503bbffef10c Alan McKinnon schrieb: > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 00:52:21 KH wrote: >> Hi, >> >> so inspired by [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow >> 3dnowext" I again thougt about my USE flags. >> >> Now I want to put them in an order which is better fitting my need than >> the alphabetical order. I remember I saw something ordering it for >> hardware and software, but I can't remember the correct way. Was it: >> USE_HARDWARE >> USE_SOFTWARE >> >> ??? >> >> Does anyone now this out of the box? >> >> Thak's >> >> kh > > How about you jumble them all up randomly? > > That would sure appear to match your state of mind on the matter. > > Who cares what the order is, you certainly shouldn't - I assure you you will > forget what the order all means anyway within 48 hours. > > Try this instead: Study and understand the USE flags and know what they do and > mean. Then list them alphabetical - you will know where to find them and when > you see them they will make sense. > Hi, sure I want to know what they do mean and I hope I already do with those I defined for my make.conf. The point is another. Like I set up another PC with other cpu and gpu I want to be able to just copy and past those use flags not related to hardware very easy. One the other hand hardware use flags shouldn't change for my pc so I do now "don't touch this area" :-) Doesn't this make sense? kh