From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C1881381F3 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 16:59:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2921FE0BEA; Mon, 27 May 2013 16:59:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f176.google.com (mail-wi0-f176.google.com [209.85.212.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BA7EDE0BC9 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 16:59:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f176.google.com with SMTP id hr14so1757934wib.9 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 09:59:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Dx53DL790g0P4w2+44jIzhEqeNTjo6zKgjlWV+pHkG4=; b=t8Q3VaWYyVOJe5HZkO/ts5Ip35/bHhgKeJ60zZ5fo8LZVpDLv4ffjOV0G85fgYeVLe IcjQaPB/lcLs1imS8MoEvqd2D02Asg5uST5G0CjWiKe/+zVc13YqMUwylqg4dkLEi1p4 CWicdkOIqUyNUhEJVWUZHaCv4C7p/vcs799TODUerLtwvhnPpz9bJsv78qHail0HinUB LKM2jHrEDOoUapckDu1CDaU7bevL3UCqcpQkV1SDpEYn7z/nqkjHIOO6BX9y7JsfC0/s 9nBcVwc0N9nRBVohONd76Ho7G8C7cRt0XXfrGKZ+h1boXou2tlZo7A4LT0zjMfPKb4js 2ZQw== X-Received: by 10.180.198.110 with SMTP id jb14mr9114336wic.37.1369673963218; Mon, 27 May 2013 09:59:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.40] (196-210-126-115.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.126.115]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id d5sm18765606wic.1.2013.05.27.09.59.21 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 27 May 2013 09:59:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51A390BB.1000206@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 18:58:35 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130518 Thunderbird/17.0.6 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] What does xgetdefault use flag do References: <51A2FE1B.9030006@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c591d3d1-b264-44f3-8c35-51a77895ad67 X-Archives-Hash: 75f451e96665e5905f4286f17d98fc25 On 27/05/2013 18:01, Mr G wrote: >> 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. > > > I didn't find anything concrete about what it does but I did find a > reference to the fact that rxvt doesn't read the $HOME/.Xresources > file if the operating system loads them into the X display. He also > does not seem to be a big Gentoo fan so I am guessing this flag has > something to do with this. It's the reference to the "small version" > in the USE flag that was confusing me. I also have no idea what "small version" means - it's not English, it doesn't parse, and it makes no sense. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com