On Sunday 15 June 2003 10:23 pm, Chris I wrote: > On 2003.06.16 00:08, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I did: > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv evolution > > > > and got: > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > > [ebuild R ] net-mail/evolution-1.2.4 +ssl +nls +mozilla -ldap - > > doc > > +spell > > -pda -ipv6 -kerberos +kde > > Okay. > > > Then I added +ssl +nls +mozilla -ldap -doc +spell -pda -ipv6 - > > kerberos > > +kde to > > my USE in /etc/make.conf > > Why did you do this???
I was under the impression that I'd have to. Well, apparently I was wrong. How do I figure out which USE variables are required for any given program to emerge?
Brett touched on this a bit, but I thought I would try to make this a little more clear. Absolutely no USE flags are _required_, they are all optional. Some are turned on by default, and others are off by default. You can find out what use flags you are using by running this command:
emerge info | grep USE
setting your USE flags in make.conf adds onto the default useflags. for example, "arts" is enabled by default, but I do not wish to have support for it, so I've put "-arts" into USE in /etc/make.conf.
Basically, putting "XYZ" will enable support for XYZ if the program you are emerging has support for it.
As for the line you did, the -v tag is "verbose". After each ebuild listing, it tells you what USE flags will affect the program.
"+ssl +nls +mozilla -ldap -doc +spell -pda -ipv6 -kerberos +kde"
That means that evolution will be compiled with support for ssl, nls, mozilla, spell, and kde, but it will not have any features for ldap, doc, pda, ipv6, or kerberos.
You really would never need to change your use flags, but it is often a good idea, say, if you buy a palm pilot, you can put "pda" in your USE flag so some programs will have support for it.
> > then I emerged evolution with: > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge evolution > > > > It installed fine but when I try to run it, it just shows the splash > > screen, > > nothing else. > > > > What did I do wrong? > > Did you have a previous version of evolution set up for your user?
No. I nerver succeeded installing a functioning version.
Some people have trouble getting it to work, and others have none. Unfortunately I'm not using evolution, so I can't really comment too much on it.
> it > might be some conflicting setting in your ~/evolution directory. try > moving it to evolution.backup and seeing if evo runs then.
Same thing. Just the splash appears, and it has to be killed to remove it. Closing doesn't work either.
BTW, galeon doesn't start either. Is there a connection?
I think there might be, what version of galeon?
-Chris I
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