Re: [gentoo-user] emerge inforamtion

["Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales" <raphael.melo21@gmail.com>]

Just adding something. Since the package is already installed, you can type:

equery u net-print/hplip

It should give you a description of what each USE flag means. And it
works with every package.

If you get a command not found error, emerge gentoolkit to get the
equery program :)

Regards,

Raphael

2006/3/30, 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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