Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-13 Thread Roy Wright
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: The last line will delete the .old files you just created when it syncs /usr/portage/profiles. Nice catch! Thank you. Changed the directory for the old files to /var/portage/profiles. That should be safe. echo "Save old use.desc" mkdir -p /var/portage/pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 15:13, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"': > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >The -pv output of emerge shows this. A flag that was not available in > > your curren

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-13 Thread Roy Wright
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: The -pv output of emerge shows this. A flag that was not available in your current version but it available in the one you are installing, will be colored yellow and postfixed with '%'. Great. So something like the following in my cron.daily/portage.update

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 03:21, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"': > I'm more interested in discovering brand new use flags. Say some > package, foo, > creates a new use flag, bar, then I

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-13 Thread Roy Wright
Michael Stewart (vericgar) wrote: Roy Wright wrote: This has me wondering if there is a utility to help manage the use flags. I'd like to know: * Which use flags I have set that are not used by anything I have installed. * Which use flags are deprecated. * Which use flags are new. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-13 Thread Rick van Hattem
On Monday 13 March 2006 05:53, Roy Wright wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >Plus, it's /completely/ trivial to add -* to your USE or (using the great > >euse tool) euse -D . Or, for those type A personalities out > >there, tweak your /etc/portage/package.use. > > Another tool is ufed (use

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-12 Thread Michael Stewart (vericgar)
Roy Wright wrote: > > This has me wondering if there is a utility to help manage the use > flags. I'd like > to know: > > * Which use flags I have set that are not used by anything I have > installed. > * Which use flags are deprecated. > * Which use flags are new. > > Ideally I'd just add this

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-12 Thread Roy Wright
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Plus, it's /completely/ trivial to add -* to your USE or (using the great euse tool) euse -D . Or, for those type A personalities out there, tweak your /etc/portage/package.use. Another tool is ufed (use flag editor). Nicely combines flag name, set state, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 12 March 2006 11:51, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"': > On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:20:31 -0500 "Walter Dnes" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Why in (die

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:20:31 -0500 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Why in (diety's) name does the the average user need apache2? Or | emboss (European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite)? Uh, USE flags are not packages. You're misunderstanding how USE flags work. Adding apache2 an

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 04:58:57PM -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote > Walter Dnes wrote: > > Why in (diety's) name does the the average user need apache2? Or > >emboss (European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite)? After the > >"ipv6" fiasco, I began USE with "-*", like so... > http://thread.gmane.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-11 Thread Ryan Tandy
Walter Dnes wrote: Why in (diety's) name does the the average user need apache2? Or emboss (European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite)? After the "ipv6" fiasco, I began USE with "-*", like so... http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/143049 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing li

[gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with "-*"

2006-03-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 06:31:14PM +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote > Thanks! It helped. 2006.0 default USE list has 'apache2' flag on, > and 'subversion' package has this USE flag. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. There it is in... /usr/portage/profiles/default-linu