Handbook Talk:AMD64/Working/USE

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Change description of package.use

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This discussion is done as of April 17 2017.

Hi,

I was wondering if it is acceptable to change the description of package.use, since it's a directory and no longer just a file.

_{Previous comment from --Oz123 (talk) on March 2nd, 2015 (UTC))}

Currently, the text says "To accomplish this, edit /etc/portage/package.use. This is usually a single file, but can also be a directory; see man portage for more information. The following examples assume package.use is a single file.". Is there any particular place that you believe we are in error?

Or is the suggestion to switch the instructions completely to a directory-based approach, and only mention that it can also just be a single file (i.e. revert the logic)? --SwifT (talk) 11:17, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

I'm closing this discussion because there really is no problem here. Two years is along enough to have no feedback from this user... one quarter year would be long enough. With that being said, I was seeing our amd64 Minimal LiveCD going out with a single child file in the package.use/ directory. As Sven Vermeulen (SwifT) noted we mention both single-file and directory here, so this discussion is really a non-issue. I'll review the text once more and add a small tip about how to name the new package.use file child file if package.use/ exists as a directory. It should help some newcomers out a bit. --Maffblaster (talk) 17:57, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Fix spelling

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"changes in these file will be undone when the Gentoo repository is updated!"

"these file" should be fixed with "these files" (plural version).

Fturco (talk) 11:47, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Fixed. Thank you! --Maffblaster (talk) 17:42, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Qt

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FILE /etc/portage/make.confUpdating USE in make.conf

USE="-kde -qt4 ldap"

Should become:

FILE /etc/portage/make.confUpdating USE in make.conf

USE="-kde -qt4 -qt5 ldap"

Fturco (talk) 11:53, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Moreover:

"For instance, to remove support for KDE and QT but add support for ldap, the following USE can be defined in /etc/portage/make.conf"

The proper spelling is Qt, not QT.

Fturco (talk) 11:56, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Good suggestion here. It's important to keep up with changing 'global' USE flags. Both are fixed as of right now. Thanks! --Maffblaster (talk) 17:46, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Remove Qt4 USE flag

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FILE /etc/portage/make.confUpdating USE in make.conf

USE="-kde -qt4 -qt5 ldap"

should become

FILE /etc/portage/make.confUpdating USE in make.conf

USE="-kde -qt5 ldap"

since the Qt4 USE flag no longer exists (since Qt4 has been removed).

--Hansfn (talk) 08:53, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

The deprecated qt4 has been removed. See Special:Diff/1029315/1046652. Thank you for reporting! --Maffblaster (talk) 18:25, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Update Examples for Available Packages

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This discussion is done as of 2022-02-01.

I would make this change, if I were permitted so to do. In the section Viewing available USE flags an example is given:

root #equery --nocolor uses =gnumeric-1.12.31

[ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation]
[        : I - package is installed with flag     ]
[ Colors : set, unset                             ]
 * Found these USE flags for app-office/gnumeric-1.12.31:
 U I
 + + introspection            : Add support for GObject based introspection
 - - libgda                   : Enable database support through gnome-extra/libgda.
 - - perl                     : Enable perl plugin loader.
 + + python                   : Enable python plugin loader.
 + + python_targets_python2_7 : Build with Python 2.7

It really ought to look like this, given the current state of the repository:

root #equery --nocolor uses =gnumeric-1.12.47

[ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation]
[        : I - package is installed with flag     ]
[ Colors : set, unset                             ]
 * Found these USE flags for app-office/gnumeric-1.12.47:
 U I
 + - introspection            : Add support for GObject based introspection
 - - libgda                   : Enable database support through gnome-extra/libgda.
 - - perl                     : Enable perl plugin loader.
 - - python_targets_python3_6 : Build with Python 3.6
 + + python_targets_python3_7 : Build with Python 3.7
 - - python_targets_python3_8 : Build with Python 3.8

--Davidbryant (talk) 22:00, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

I think it is counterproductive to update examples for every change in the repository. --Grknight (talk) 14:22, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

I have updated the example to reference the app-portage/portage-utils package due to this comment. This package does not use python_targets_* and therefore be subjected to relatively rapid changes from equery uses output... portage-utils is also likely a more utilized package than gnumeric. See Special:Diff/1046652/1046656. Thanks! --Maffblaster (talk) 19:25, 1 February 2022 (UTC)