On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Christoph Niethammer
wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I see. There is more documentation on a per package bases wich has to be
> considered, too. (Found already the metadata.xml files.)
The metadata.xml files are used to generate the use.local.desc file.
>
> As with the pan
On 03/16/2012 08:05, Christoph Niethammer wrote:
> Here is the list of USE flags I identified at my system:
>
> * Undocumented use flags:
> --
[snip]
> nptlonly
[snip]
nptlonly was used during the transition from linuxthreads to NPTL in glibc.
The toolchain would build glibc twice,
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Christoph Niethammer
wrote:
> Here the euse command is realy handy. :-)
> However the sysfs USE flag is still hiding its documentation.
> So lets see if this is a bug or a feature. ;-)
Yup, euse is helpful, or you can grep /usr/portage/profiles/use.*
(including th
On 17 March 2012 01:05, Christoph Niethammer
wrote:
> Hello.
quse -D amd64 consolekit declarative gdu kipi mudflap nptlonly pango
phonon pppd qt3support sysfs xorg
arch:amd64: amd64 architecture
local:consolekit:app-emulation/spice-vdagent: Use sys-auth/consolekit
to determine the master vd
Hello.
I see. There is more documentation on a per package bases wich has to be
considered, too. (Found already the metadata.xml files.)
As with the pango USE they may differe in their description - maybe also in
their meaning for different packages. So local USE flags should only be used on
a
> * Undocumented use flags:
> --
> pango
% euse -i pango
global use flags (searching: pango)
no matching entries found
local use flags (searching: pango)
[+ D ] pa
On 03/16/2012 07:05 AM, Christoph Niethammer wrote:
>
> * Unused and undocumented USE flags:
> --
> amd64
> mudflap
> sysfs
>
amd64 is never documented, it is defined by arch being built for,
mudflap is used by gcc, sysfs I believe is a dead useflag. Maybe someone
else can comment on it.
Hello.
Currently I am doing a from scratch installation of gentoo.
While setting up my USE flags I noticed, that some default USE flags in the
default environment (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde) are neither
documented (in /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc) nor used in IUSE by any package
(a
