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Use flags are options in Gentoo Linux's [[Portage]] system. | Use flags are options in Gentoo Linux's [[Portage]] system. | ||
== Setting Use Flags == | |||
=== Per package === | |||
Typically, you would add a use flags on a per-package basis by making changes to the file: | |||
* /etc/portage/package.use | |||
Use a text editor as "superuser" to edit this file. | |||
For instance to add jpeg, png, and TrueType support to [[ImageMagick]], you need to add the following line somewhere (it doesn't matter where) to the package.use file: | |||
<pre> | |||
media-gfx/imagemagick jpeg png truetype | |||
</pre> | |||
To explicitly ''disable'' a particular feature, put a dash (-) before the flag name, as in: | |||
<pre> | |||
media-gfx/imagemagick jpeg png truetype -tiff | |||
</pre> | |||
=== Globally === | |||
Sometimes a particular use flag is used by many packages. To set such a flag for ''all'' software packages you install with portage, you can add them to the file '''/etc/make.conf'''. In that case, you would add the flag to the line that looks like USE="...", as in: | |||
<pre> | |||
USE="-ipv6 gtk2 unicode" | |||
</pre> | |||
For more in information on Portage, check out [http://pzwart2.wdka.hro.nl/phorum/viewtopic.php?p=431#431 Cal's post in the forum]. | |||
Latest revision as of 22:42, 13 October 2008
Use flags are options in Gentoo Linux's Portage system.
Setting Use Flags
Per package
Typically, you would add a use flags on a per-package basis by making changes to the file:
- /etc/portage/package.use
Use a text editor as "superuser" to edit this file.
For instance to add jpeg, png, and TrueType support to ImageMagick, you need to add the following line somewhere (it doesn't matter where) to the package.use file:
media-gfx/imagemagick jpeg png truetype
To explicitly disable a particular feature, put a dash (-) before the flag name, as in:
media-gfx/imagemagick jpeg png truetype -tiff
Globally
Sometimes a particular use flag is used by many packages. To set such a flag for all software packages you install with portage, you can add them to the file /etc/make.conf. In that case, you would add the flag to the line that looks like USE="...", as in:
USE="-ipv6 gtk2 unicode"
For more in information on Portage, check out Cal's post in the forum.