Holly Bostick wrote:
The first thing you need to understand is that USE flags enable/disable
*optional* support for supplemental applications. USE flags will never
affect anything that you "need" (to run the system), though it may
affect things that you "want" (for your own ease and comfort).
Dale wrote:
That is how I remove old KDE after a big upgrade too, one at a time
and then confirm with the -p at the end to make sure I got it all.
I'll go to work on it tomorrow. I'm still half asleep and it may not
be a good idea right now.
And to think I cleaned off a hard drive for t
That's the way it's supposed to work, afaik. It does mean you have to
buckle down and think about what you specifically want/need, but
"customization" always requires that, whether it's because you're
detailing your hotrod (I've clearly seen too much "American Chopper",
"Pimp My Ride" and "Whee
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:18:57 -0600, Dale wrote:
There's no need to reinstall for this. Change your USE flags and do
"emerge -uavDN world". To re-emerge anything affected by the changes.
Then do "emerge -a depclean" to remove packages that are no longer
needed.
On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:18:57 -0600, Dale wrote:
> >There's no need to reinstall for this. Change your USE flags and do
> >"emerge -uavDN world". To re-emerge anything affected by the changes.
> >Then do "emerge -a depclean" to remove packages that are no longer
> >needed.
> >
> >
>
> How's thi
Neil Bothwick wrote:
That's why you can change USE flags on a per-package basis,
in /etc/portage/package.use.
I have used that file before. I am still a bit new to this. I'm
learning though, slowly.
There's no need to reinstall for this. Change your USE flags and do
"emerge -uavDN
Dale schreef:
> Hi again,
>
> I read a thread that was talking about the global USE pulling some
> things a user may not want installed. I am going to do a reinstall
> and mostly copy some things over from my current install but I do
> want to change my USE line. I am a bit worried about usin
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:54:06 -0600, Dale wrote:
> I read a thread that was talking about the global USE pulling some
> things a user may not want installed.
That's why you can change USE flags on a per-package basis,
in /etc/portage/package.use.
> I am going to do a reinstall and
> mostly copy
Hi again,
I read a thread that was talking about the global USE pulling some
things a user may not want installed. I am going to do a reinstall and
mostly copy some things over from my current install but I do want to
change my USE line. I am a bit worried about using the option they
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