USE variables

yob · Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2002 4:20 am Post subject: USE variables

erm... this might be a silly question... but..

what are USE variables? ie. if i add "kde" or "-kde" to USE=, what effects will it have??

James[/u]

klieber · Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2002 5:49 pm Post subject:

Check out the Portage user guide:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/portage-user.html

It should at least get you started on what USE variables are and how to use them correctly.

--kurt
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yob · Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 12:55 am Post subject:

rightyo..read the manual... explained most of it too me

so..just to recap..

for example, if i add "-gnome" to USE, that means that if a package includes an optional dependency on gnome, then it wont be installed??

James

fghellar · Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 1:02 am Post subject:

The package itself will still be installed, only without the optional support for gnome. A good example is vim.
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dArkMaGE · Apprentice Joined: 20 Apr 2002 Posts: 152

also, if you look at /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc it will give basic descriptions of what all the use variables affect