Hi, Richard Fish wrote: >Holly Bostick wrote: > > > >>OK, I'm following both of you so far. Yes, I do have 'multislot' for >>binutils. I admit it was just guesswork on my part; I read the USE flag >>description, thought about automake and autoconf, thought that binutils >>sounded like the kind of system utility that might need similar >>functionality (though for reasons I wouldn't know about, as a >>non-programmer), so enabled it. But of course, now I still don't know if >>I actually need it or it's just causing me grief. Was it a bad call? >> >> >> >> > >First, let me say that I couldn't find any documentation via google >("site:gentoo.org multislot") or in use.desc for multislot. So if I >contradict anything that the documentation says, I am probably wrong. ;-> > > > Just a note here, try running: "euse -i multislot", here's the output: ...BEGIN... euse -i multislot global use flags (searching: multislot) ************************************************************ no matching entries found
local use flags (searching: multislot) ************************************************************ [- ] multislot (sys-devel/binutils): Allow for multiple versions of binutils to be emerged at once for same CTARGET [- ] multislot (sys-devel/gcc): Allow for SLOTs to include minor version (3.3.4 instead of just 3.3) ...END... Beside looking in "use.desc" you can also have a look at "use.local.desc" file. 'euse' is in gentoolkit ...SKIP... >Richard > > > HTH. Rumen
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