Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-23 Thread JDM
Ignore the bit about symlinks. Sorry talking garbage. Not sure what I was thinking but trying to suggest there is a use flag called symlink. Its not related to this. Apologies. --Original Message-- From: Peter Humphrey To: Gentoo ReplyTo: Gentoo Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 20 May 2011 09:17:48 JDM wrote: > Try "eselect profile list" which should list available profiles including > a gnome. > > You will need symlinks in "USE" flags in make.conf to get eselect to work > and reemerged world. What do you mean? Symlinks in USE flags? I'm flummoxed. > Not sur

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:55:52PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:45 on Thursday 19 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie > did opine thusly: > > Hi, Gentoo. > > How do I list out a list of current USE flags? > emerge --info | grep USE Thanks! > > The reason I

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Bill. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 01:00:45PM -0700, Bill Longman wrote: > On 05/19/2011 11:45 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, Gentoo. > > How do I list out a list of current USE flags? > Besides the "emerge --info" examples already given, if you have > gentoolkit installed, you can use > euse

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-20 Thread JDM
rs should be able to help. --Original Message-- From: Felix Leif Keppmann To: Gentoo ReplyTo: Gentoo Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags? Sent: 19 May 2011 19:58 Hey Alan, to get the current USE flags use emerge --info and look at USE="..." This does not include

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-19 Thread Bill Longman
On 05/19/2011 11:45 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo. > > How do I list out a list of current USE flags? Besides the "emerge --info" examples already given, if you have gentoolkit installed, you can use euse -i which, in the example above, lists out all the flags, where they come from and

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-19 Thread Felix Leif Keppmann
Hey Alan, to get the current USE flags use emerge --info and look at USE="..." This does not include local use flags, for those you should check your files in /etc/portage/package.use or /etc/portage/package.use/ Cheers Felix Leif On Thursday 19 May 2011 18:45:41 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:45 on Thursday 19 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: > Hi, Gentoo. > > How do I list out a list of current USE flags? emerge --info | grep USE > > The reason I ask is I'm hypothesising that my recent troubles in Gnome > may be due to not having a su

[gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo. How do I list out a list of current USE flags? The reason I ask is I'm hypothesising that my recent troubles in Gnome may be due to not having a suitable profile. I would like to select a different profile and compare its USE flags with those of my current profile. -- Alan Mackenzi