From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FPHtR-0007C9-Hd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:34:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2VBX7u1023060; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:33:07 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.194]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2VBRfcY012322 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:27:42 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id n29so457563nzf for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:27:40 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=j00+9txUqfqztoJpCrjuyQCOLQojX7daDbNmZvc/hU3Gmx6i0QiOfSa994jTBwiQSnjpkByloVNTuMXH11O7c6C8uPsHSFdBw7l2t+oMxRuT13vBWMdq+1mKijthLJZEzLZCRiaUMC/pRybUe3uomBh+tr2OQbP7hR03fBjT5rY= Received: by 10.64.233.6 with SMTP id f6mr1475737qbh; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:59:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.151.13 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:59:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8f7a9d580603300959qc4188a7n30afef20b4c61596@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:59:21 -0300 From: "Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge inforamtion In-Reply-To: <442BDF30.3090704@vista-express.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <200603301526.04875.contiemilio@virgilio.it> <442BDF30.3090704@vista-express.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k2VBRfcY012322 X-Archives-Salt: 4a2cab84-1c3f-4a26-83d6-5803b53e5fee X-Archives-Hash: de1f398d164942d1c913d6351953cd77 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 : > 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 > :-) > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list