From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M98nU-0003ZE-G8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 02:23:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C216E04F6; Wed, 27 May 2009 02:23:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aplus.dartworks.biz (aplus.dartworks.biz [206.225.82.180]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 506D4E04F6 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 02:23:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.111.1.166] (173-8-128-221-SFBA.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [::ffff:173.8.128.221]) (AUTH: CRAM-MD5 mercury) by aplus.dartworks.biz with esmtp; Tue, 26 May 2009 19:23:13 -0700 id 0037C00B.4A1CA411.00002935 Message-Id: From: Keith Dart To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4A1C9A2F.2080906@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 19:23:13 -0700 References: <4A1C72A5.1010905@konstantinhansen.de> <200905270052.09197.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <636AB7BF-BFA1-4ED2-933F-E62DC5550A7A@dartworks.biz> <200905270216.12504.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <8CE75B06-D698-4FCA-A4EE-B608F9055FA8@dartworks.biz> <4A1C9A2F.2080906@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) X-Archives-Salt: 1b9b2806-f793-4b7b-8280-b79afc9ea040 X-Archives-Hash: 619ffe8929192e4c12584a57fd306ea7 On May 26, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Dale wrote: > Memorized all of what? Open a text editor and edit make.conf. What > do > you need to memorize? If you use KDE, you can edit them with kwrite > which is about as easy as it gets. Heck, I been using Gentoo for > years > and I don't recall ever using ufed. Editing make.conf is easy, knowing what to put in it is the hard part. what are all the possible flag names you can enter? There are hundreds. What do they all mean? How does enabling or disabling a particular use flag effect the build of all packages that use it? Which packages share a use flag? Which flags are mutually exclusive? Which ones are enabled by default, that you want disabled? There is much more involved than simply editing a file.