How to find out the default USE flags

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fangwen · Post by **fangwen** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 4:34 am

I ran emerge --info and I was surprised there were too many USE flags, I know it was the default. I read Gentoo Docs and I was a little confused with it. As it wrote,

This default setting is declared in the make.defaults files part of your profile.

But I didn't find any make.defaults file. So where can I find it, I am not going to edit it, of course.

mark_alec · Post by **mark_alec** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 5:27 am

If you look in /usr/portage/profiles/ you should be able to find make.defaults that your profile will inherit. They are split into multiple parts - e.g. architecture, kernel, desktop/server choice etc.

Genone · Post by **Genone** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 9:00 am

Easiest way is to run

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USE_ORDER="defaults" emerge --info

to ignore the user config.

dol-sen · Post by **dol-sen** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:36 am

For further system analysis and tweaking you can use enalyze from gentoolkit to analyze your systems use flag usage (analyze sub module) and can even generate a package.use file to maintain your current installed pkg use flag status (rebuild sub module).