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robintw
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 Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:12 pm Post subject: [solved] Yellow highlight on use flags in new portage |
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Hi
I've just done an emerge --sync and been told to upgrade portage, which I duely have done. Now when I do an emerge with the -v argument, some of the use flags are highlighted in yellow, and have a % sign after their name. I've looked everywhere I can think of, but can't find what this means? I assumed from a long time in the past that the green ones were ones that were active - either becaeuse they were in make.conf or were specified on the command line - but what about this new yellow?
Sorry for this possibly rather dumb question - maybe I just haven't looked in the right place.
Thanks in advance anyway,
Robin
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radfoj
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| it means something like ... that the flag was added to that package .... previous version doesnt have it |
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artakserkso
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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| They represent new USE flags for the package which weren't available for the previous version. |
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robintw
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you very much! Now I understand - I thought I hadn't heard of those flags before! Presumably I can enable them if I particularly want - or otherwise just ignore them?
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artakserkso
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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| robintw wrote: | | Presumably I can enable them if I particularly want - or otherwise just ignore them? |
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robintw
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks to everyone who replied - I've now set the topic to [solved] in the subject.
Robin |
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lxg
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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| robintw wrote: | | Thanks to everyone who replied - I've now set the topic to [solved] in the subject. |
Let me add one more thing: As we all know, a man page is being read with the less tool, which has a search function. (Enter a slash, then your search string, and then hit enter.) If you had man emerge and searched for a percent sign or the string "percent sign", you would have directly come to the solution to your question.
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robintw
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| Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
Thanks for the info. I tried doing a | Code: | | man emerge | grep color |
and didn't come up with anything - as I assumed it was all to do with the colour coding - it wasn't until I posted this post that I realised about the %'s after it.
Thanks anyway
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