On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:29:39PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote
> I would like to know how the current USE variables are set.
> I know that "emerge --info" displays a list of all of them, but it doesn't
> discriminate where they come from. I couldn't find clear documentation
> about it, but of course I may have missed something.
> In the same line, I find /etc/make.profile/make.defaults _very strange_.
> "perl"? Sure. "fortran"? Well, who knows... But "emboss"?!
Actually, "fortran" is a gcc flag that seems to have some other uses.
You *DO* need it. "perl" is for enabling optional perl support in
various programs, which I try to do without.
> I'm writing "-*" at the beginning of the USE declaration in
> /etc/make.conf, but I can't avoid the feeling that this may be a Bad
> Thing.
Actually, I do it too, and I've only been bitten twice. Here's mine.
It fits my equipment and my mix of applications. Your needs may be
different.
USE="-* 3dnow X a52 aac alsa bzip2 cdr dga dio divx4linux dri dvd dvdr dvdread
encode exif ffmpeg flac fortran gb gif gtk2 imlib jpeg maildir mikmod mime mmap
mmx mng mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl plotutils
png posix quicktime readline sdl sharedmem slang sockets sse theora threads
tiff truetype vcd vorbis win32codecs wmf xpm xv zlib"
Remember also /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc and
/etc/portage/package.use. My package.use contains...
# begin ======================
app-misc/mc -X
app-office/openoffice-bin java
app-text/xpdf motif
media-gfx/gimp doc
media-libs/win32codecs real
media-video/mplayer custom-cflags i8x0 real sse2 3dnowext mmxext
net-misc/wget ssl
net-nntp/slrn uudeview
sys-libs/glibc userlocales
www-client/links svga
x11-base/xorg-x11 bitmap-fonts font-server truetype-fonts type1-fonts
# If it's going to be a rescue package, it damn well better work
# standalone when libraries get deleted.
sys-apps/busybox static
# end ========================
The 2 times I've been bitten are...
1) xpdf *MUST* have motif support enabled. If not, the xpdf libraries
get built, but not the executable... oops.
2) wget without ssl retrieves "http://"; URLs fine, but does *NOT*
retrieve "https://"; URLs
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