On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:10:18PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > At 03:33 PM 10/24/2003, you wrote: > >If you have a package that has a KDE and GNOME > >interface and you only run GNOME, adding "-kde" to your USE flags > >will make it so that when portage compiles the package it will only > >compile the GNOME interface. > > I've seen this mentioned before and I'm curious, how many apps out there > would fall into this category ?? That is, having both a GNOME and KDE > interface ?? I know with many apps, gaim, for example, are in fact GTK
Probably not a lot, it's more useful of things like different database support (ie: dbm/mysql/postgres)and network protocol stuff. Bad example on my part. > apps, *not* Gnome apps. When you configure gaim with "./configure > --disable-gnome" it leaves out "something" that's gnome-based. Not sure > what, nor really care, but that's the only kind of instance I've seen of > this. This probably disabled the gnome session management stuff. Never really looked into it to be honest. The use howto (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/use-howto.xml) has more information and far better examples. It won't give you more control over what's installed than you can do with --disable and --enable flags, but it does give you some control. -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
