On Friday 18 March 2016 09:08:53 Neil Bothwick wrote: > No one gets it right first time, there are many choices and many ways of > doing things. No book can tell you which way is right for you, only > experience can do that. Getting things like this wrong is a natural part > of the Gentoo learning experience. > > You will develop your way of doing things over time, and that way could > change as your needs do. Using your example of package.use, moving USE > flags from package.use to make.conf is an easy enough task if you need to > change. I tend to put them n package.use to start with then migrate to > make.conf if I find I am using the same flag on several packages.
A simple way to start off is to see whether the USE flag is listed in /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc or use.local.desc. If the former, it's likely to affect many packages in a typical system so put it in make.conf; if the latter, it's likely to affect only a few of your packages so put it in package.use. You can always move it later if you want to, as Neil says. -- Rgds Peter linuxcounter.net reg user 5290 since 1994/04/23
