Just adding something. Since the package is already installed, you can type:
equery u net-print/hplip It should give you a description of what each USE flag means. And it works with every package. If you get a command not found error, emerge gentoolkit to get the equery program :) Regards, Raphael 2006/3/30, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >USE flags doubts (again). > > > >If I run this command: > > > >emerge -pv hplip > > > >the output is: > >[ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-0.9.7-r3 +X +cups +foomaticdb -ppds +qt > >+scanner* -snmp +usb 0 kB > > > >There are 5 flags prefixed by a plus and red coloured (+X, +cups, > >+foomaticdb, > >+qt and +usb). These flags are already set. Right? > > > > > > The plus sign means that it will be compiled with support for that > flag. It means you can use that basically. > > >There are 2 flags prefixed by a menus and blue coloured (-ppds and -snmp). > >These flags are not set. But, should I set them? > > > > > > It depends on whether you will use them or not. This is what that flag > is for: "ppds - Adds support for automatically generated ppd (printing > driver) files." If you need it, edit make.conf file and put it in the > USE= line. The snmp is this: "snmp - Adds support for the Simple > Network Management Protocol if available." You can get the same info > from here: /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc > > >Finally there is anoter flag prefixed by a plus and green coloured > >(+scanner*). What does the trailing * mean? What does the green colour mean? > > > >Thank you a lot in advance. > > > >emilio > > > > > > > > If I recall correctly, that * means it has been changed since the > program was instaled. If you changed some flags recently, you may want > to do a emerge -Nvp world to see what else has changed. If everything > looks OK, take off the p and let it recompile those for you so it will > work correctly. > > Hope that helps. > > Dale > :-) > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
