Re: [gentoo-user] What does xgetdefault use flag do

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 27/05/2013 02:47, Mr G wrote:
> Am I correct that the xgetdefault use flag is needed for an application
> if I want it to read Xresources and Xdefaults? Does it enable anything
> else? I tried searching the forum and the web but there is too many
> false positive hits to sort through. Most references to it are very old
> so is it a deprecated feature? The definition for the use flag is a
> little cryptic or maybe I'm a little too dumb.
> 
> OT: This is my first post to this list and just want to say hi. I've
> been stalking the list for several months now and this is by far the
> most interesting and useful list I've ever subscribed to. 


Hello,

Welcome to gentoo-user :-)

USE flag xgetdefault is very little used, checking the definitions shows
this:

$ grep -r xgetdefault /var/portage/profiles/use.*
/var/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:x11-terms/aterm:xgetdefault -
Enable resources via X instead of aterm small version
/var/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:x11-terms/rxvt:xgetdefault - Enable
resources via X instead of rxvt small version


So it's not global, and is local to only two packages - aterm and rxvt.


You'll have to look in those app's docs or code to find out what they do
with ./configure --enable xgetdefault, but I suppose a reasonable
reading is that it uses Xresources in addition to $SOMETHING_ELSE.

So to answer your original question, that flag seems to only be valid
for aterm and rxvt and nothing else uses it; it will have no effect on
any other package at all. It especially will NOT enable Xresources
globally for all apps - it will do it just for those two



-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com