On Fri, 18 May 2007 00:15:44 +0900
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Dan Farrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:52 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My only input on the subject of
circular dependencies
On Thu, 17 May 2007 09:18:40 +0900
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My only input at this time (since I am a total newb when it
comes to Gentoo), is this.
...
---
Ken
I think that's excellent advice Ken. I would add somewhere
between USEing sparingly and reading errors (windows people
in particular never seem to do this) that emerging -av is a
great idea, since it lists the use flags you're likely to
want to look over before going. Many a gray hair can be
avoided by a little extra work before sending the emerge through.
Don't give up newbies! It comes eventually, I swear.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Would -p work well with the -av (-avp) ? I have not looked over the -a
and -v just yet, but I know that -p will make sure it doesn't actually
change anything on the first attempt. :)
-a is just like -p except it gives you the option to start the merge
right away. I recommend it as a replacement to -p because it saves the
time of recalculating the dependancies if the USE flags are as you want
them. They are mutually exclusive:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -p -a -v xorg-x11
| --pretend disables --ask... removing --ask from options.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
