[Sussex] More gentoo problems!!!

[Steve Williams]

John,

Sorry I couldn't make the moot on Thursday - I was up in Luton and got caught 
up in the usual M25 rush hour snarl up. Not helped by the current roadworks 
around Staines.

When I first looked at the USE flags I thought that I would get away with a 
minimal number. After a bit of reading I decided to include all but the ones 
I definitely wouldn't be needing. This ended up being rather long but my 
system works fine as a result. The following will probably bring peals of 
laughter from the hardened gurus among the group, but this is what I ended up 
with:

USE="3dnow aalib acl acpi adns alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bidi cdr 
bonobo crypt cscope cups curl dga directfb doc dvd dvdr emacs emacs-w3 encode 
ethereal evo fam fastcgi fbcon firebird foomaticdb freetds gd gdbm ggi gif 
gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imap imagemagick imlib 
innodb ipv6 java jikes joystick jpeg kde kerberos krb4 ldap leim libg++ 
libgda libwww lirc mad maildir mbox mcal mmx motif mozilla mpeg mpi mysql nas 
ncurses odbc oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pda ppds pdflib perl png pnp 
postgres prelude python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sasl scanner sdl slp 
snmp spell sse ssl sqlite svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype trusted unicode 
usb videos wmf wxwindows X Xaw3d xinerama xosd xml xml2 xmms xv zlib x86"

You can find a full list of USE flags here:

http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml

Good luck! If you think I can assist further please let me know.

Steve Williams.


On Saturday 28 February 2004 17:11, John D. wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Adam" <thomas_adam16 at yahoo.com>
> To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 3:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] More gentoo problems!!!
>
> > You were playing with it, and it broke. As long as you weren't root at
> > the time, you weren't to blame ;)
>
> Ah, but I was :( and as I knew that to get back to where I was, it meant
> "re-install" (well until I know better)
>
> > What this is saying is that you want to link againstthe QT libs (which is
> > what KDE is built upon), and gtk where applicable.
>
> This is what I don't understand, because I thought it was telling the
> system to use the qtlibs and kde, while also saying dont use gnome or gtk,
> hence the -gtk - gnome bit.
>
> > No, these are compile time directives only.
>
> Bugger, that means I'll have to google for compile time directives :(
>
> Thanks anyway Thomas - I knew it was too good to be true, and find
> something "that" straight forward!
>
> regards
>
> John D.
>
>
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