[gentoo-user] Re: Complete list of USE flags?

[gentoo-user] Re: Complete list of USE flags?

[Harry Putnam]

Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> writes:

[...]

> Anyone knows an exhaustive list of USE flags?

Something I find useful on occasion when looking at and dealing with
USE flags is a funky old tool on portage called 'ufed'.

You type 'ufed' at a command line and get an ncurses sort of window.
You don't need to be in X.

The application lists many flags and a description of their purpose
(in alphabetical order).  

You can just start typing the name of any USE flag... and find it
right quick, along with a somewhat detailed purpose explanation.

You can globally set flags... and maybe set them in other ways.... I
never use that part.... but find it really handy to find out what a
flag is supposed to do.

[gentoo-user] Complete list of USE flags?

[Pandu Poluan]

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Hello guys,

I'm a bit ashamed to ask this question, as it belies how long I haven't
actually installed a 'lightweight' Gentoo system...

But I digress. On to my question:

Anyone knows an exhaustive list of USE flags?

And a related subquestion:

Is the USE flags list at znurt.org up-to-date?

The reason I'm asking, is because I'm planning on building *very*
lightweight systems with as small attack surface as possible.

Rgds,
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Re: [gentoo-user] Complete list of USE flags?

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I'm a bit ashamed to ask this question, as it belies how long I haven't
> actually installed a 'lightweight' Gentoo system...
>
> But I digress. On to my question:
>
> Anyone knows an exhaustive list of USE flags?
>
> And a related subquestion:
>
> Is the USE flags list at znurt.org up-to-date?
>
> The reason I'm asking, is because I'm planning on building *very*
> lightweight systems with as small attack surface as possible.

Supposedly, in the tree all global USE flags are listed in:

/usr/portage/profiles/use.desc

The local USE flags are listed in:

/usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] Complete list of USE flags?

[Mick]

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On Sunday 04 Aug 2013 19:35:12 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> > Hello guys,
> > 
> > I'm a bit ashamed to ask this question, as it belies how long I haven't
> > actually installed a 'lightweight' Gentoo system...
> > 
> > But I digress. On to my question:
> > 
> > Anyone knows an exhaustive list of USE flags?
> > 
> > And a related subquestion:
> > 
> > Is the USE flags list at znurt.org up-to-date?
> > 
> > The reason I'm asking, is because I'm planning on building *very*
> > lightweight systems with as small attack surface as possible.
> 
> Supposedly, in the tree all global USE flags are listed in:
> 
> /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc
> 
> The local USE flags are listed in:
> 
> /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc


Also, you should be able to list them all, with flags showing if they are in 
the environment (E), in make.conf (C), in make defaults (D), in make globals 
(G), by using:

  euse -i

If it is a specific flag you want to check then just add it at the end of the 
above incantation.  More details in man euse.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Complete list of USE flags?

[Randolph Maaßen]

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On Aug 4, 2013 8:46 PM, "Mick" <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 04 Aug 2013 19:35:12 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> > > Hello guys,
> > >
> > > I'm a bit ashamed to ask this question, as it belies how long I
haven't
> > > actually installed a 'lightweight' Gentoo system...
> > >
> > > But I digress. On to my question:
> > >
> > > Anyone knows an exhaustive list of USE flags?
> > >
> > > And a related subquestion:
> > >
> > > Is the USE flags list at znurt.org up-to-date?
> > >
> > > The reason I'm asking, is because I'm planning on building *very*
> > > lightweight systems with as small attack surface as possible.
> >
> > Supposedly, in the tree all global USE flags are listed in:
> >
> > /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc
> >
> > The local USE flags are listed in:
> >
> > /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc
>
>
> Also, you should be able to list them all, with flags showing if they are
in
> the environment (E), in make.conf (C), in make defaults (D), in make
globals
> (G), by using:
>
>   euse -i
>
> If it is a specific flag you want to check then just add it at the end of
the
> above incantation.  More details in man euse.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mick

If you prefere an online list visit http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml
There are the global use flags and some local ones with a description.

Mit freundlichen grüßen / Best regads

Randolph Maaßen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Complete list of USE flags?

[Daniel Troeder]

Am 04.08.2013 20:31, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
> Hello guys,
> 
> I'm a bit ashamed to ask this question, as it belies how long I haven't
> actually installed a 'lightweight' Gentoo system...
> 
> But I digress. On to my question:
> 
> Anyone knows an exhaustive list of USE flags?
> 
> And a related subquestion:
> 
> Is the USE flags list at znurt.org <http://znurt.org> up-to-date?
> 
> The reason I'm asking, is because I'm planning on building *very*
> lightweight systems with as small attack surface as possible.
> 
> Rgds,
> --
> 
I have two symlinks in all of my gentoo installations in $HOME:
use.desc       -> /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc
use.local.desc -> /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc

When I want to look "something" up, I use:
$ grep something ~/use*

To narrow results down, I sometimes prepend or append ':' to "something".

Greetings,
Daniel