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SilverPhoenix
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 Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 1:18 pm Post subject: a general question |
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| ok well i do have a general questoin, i have in my use flags a bunch of stuff including mozilla and kde, when i emerge system will that install all o fthem? or do i have to manually install everythign, ive read the docs adn am a bit confused |
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slartibartfasz
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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'system' is the basic system only...
as for use flags - they are there to modify packages u install...
example: there are some parts of kde that can be compiled with mysql support - if u install kde and u have mysql enabled support for it is compiled into the binaries... if u want to exclude some things that u dont need just set them to '-something' and it will be left out - '-java' will prevent 'emerge gcc' from compiling a java compiler...
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SilverPhoenix
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 6:35 pm Post subject: Makes sense, but 2 more quick questions |
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Ok then if thats the case , being as if USE flags are only used for vai\riation and what not for your system, if i wanted to install kde basically all i would do is say emerge kde correct?
also one more ?, does X come automatically installed when you emerge system and rebuild yoru kernel using make menuconfig? or do you have to instlal X seperatly using emerge xfree? |
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_SkeLeToN_
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 7:19 pm Post subject: Re: Makes sense, but 2 more quick questions |
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| SilverPhoenix wrote: | Ok then if thats the case , being as if USE flags are only used for vai\riation and what not for your system, if i wanted to install kde basically all i would do is say emerge kde correct?
also one more ?, does X come automatically installed when you emerge system and rebuild yoru kernel using make menuconfig? or do you have to instlal X seperatly using emerge xfree? |
You will have to emerge xfree seperatly because its not part of the emerge system. |
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hook
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| Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 9:58 am Post subject: Re: Makes sense, but 2 more quick questions |
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| SilverPhoenix wrote: | Ok then if thats the case , being as if USE flags are only used for vai\riation and what not for your system, if i wanted to install kde basically all i would do is say emerge kde correct?
also one more ?, does X come automatically installed when you emerge system and rebuild yoru kernel using make menuconfig? or do you have to instlal X seperatly using emerge xfree? |
kde? correct.
...but as i can remeber, emerge kde doesn't look for xfree if it is installed, so you have to emerge xfree separatly
those USE flags are actually used in hte same way you would use them to compile source on your own:
example:
if you hav USE="-gnome -gtk +qt +kde"
when you emerge xmms (or whatever)
it'll act the same way as if you would use:
./configure
make --without-gnome --without-gtg --with-qt --with-kde
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Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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