[gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

[gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Gentoo.

How do I list out a list of current USE flags?

The reason I ask is I'm hypothesising that my recent troubles in Gnome
may be due to not having a suitable profile.  I would like to select a
different profile and compare its USE flags with those of my current
profile.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 20:45 on Thursday 19 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie 
did opine thusly:

> Hi, Gentoo.
> 
> How do I list out a list of current USE flags?

emerge --info | grep USE


> 
> The reason I ask is I'm hypothesising that my recent troubles in Gnome
> may be due to not having a suitable profile.  I would like to select a
> different profile and compare its USE flags with those of my current
> profile.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Alan.

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:55:52PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 20:45 on Thursday 19 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie 
> did opine thusly:

> > Hi, Gentoo.

> > How do I list out a list of current USE flags?

> emerge --info | grep USE

Thanks!

> > The reason I ask is I'm hypothesising that my recent troubles in Gnome
> > may be due to not having a suitable profile.  I would like to select a
> > different profile and compare its USE flags with those of my current
> > profile.

> -- 
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

[Felix Leif Keppmann]

Hey Alan,

to get the current USE flags use

emerge --info

and look at USE="..."

This does not include local use flags, for those you should check your files in
/etc/portage/package.use or /etc/portage/package.use/


Cheers
Felix Leif


On Thursday 19 May 2011 18:45:41 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Gentoo.
> 
> How do I list out a list of current USE flags?
> 
> The reason I ask is I'm hypothesising that my recent troubles in Gnome
> may be due to not having a suitable profile.  I would like to select a
> different profile and compare its USE flags with those of my current
> profile.

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

[Bill Longman]

On 05/19/2011 11:45 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Gentoo.
> 
> How do I list out a list of current USE flags?

Besides the "emerge --info" examples already given, if you have
gentoolkit installed, you can use

euse -i

which, in the example above, lists out all the flags, where they come
from and which package uses them. Typically, though, you would use:

euse -i dhcp

to see what the dhcp use flag does.

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Bill.

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 01:00:45PM -0700, Bill Longman wrote:
> On 05/19/2011 11:45 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > Hi, Gentoo.

> > How do I list out a list of current USE flags?

> Besides the "emerge --info" examples already given, if you have
> gentoolkit installed, you can use

> euse -i

> which, in the example above, lists out all the flags, where they come
> from and which package uses them.

It doesn't accept ctrl-C.  ;-(

> Typically, though, you would use:

> euse -i dhcp

> to see what the dhcp use flag does.

OK, thanks for telling about euse.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I dump use flags?

[Hartmut Figge]

Alan Mackenzie:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 01:00:45PM -0700, Bill Longman wrote:

>> euse -i
> 
>> which, in the example above, lists out all the flags, where they come
>> from and which package uses them.
> 
> It doesn't accept ctrl-C.  ;-(

Have noticed that also. *g*

Hartmut
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