On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 08:32:40AM -0500, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes:
>
> > On 17 May 2008, at 16:00, Alexander Meinke wrote:
> >
> >>>> So again, if one wanted to set some use flags differently for layman
> >>>> packages ... where and how would that be done?
> >>> I think that you should use package.use.
> >>
> >> Yes. According to Strollers post this is done by an package.use file
> >> in /usr/portage/layman I think.
> >
> > Yes, package.use, but not anywhere special - just the regular one in /
> > etc/portage/, /etc/portage/package.use. This sets use flags for all
> > packages, both in the main tree AND in layman.
> >
>
> I'm a little confused .. the question (that you quoted in your
> reply) asks how to set use flags separately for layman overlay.
>
> So your answer doesn't appear to make sense... but maybe I'm missing
> something here.
There is no way to set use flags separately for packages in overlays.
If you have a package foo which uses use flag bar and you want to have
that use flag turned on, just put this line in /etc/portage/package.use.
foo bar
That will turn on the bar use flag for package foo, regardless of
whether foo is from the main tree or an overlay.
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William Hubbs
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> So I think you wont be able to set USE-Flags specially for layman
> packages.
That appears to be correct, as there is no mention of overlay-specific
USE settings anywhere in the layman docs.
So, it seems that one still has only the same two options that portage
offers:
- global, in make.conf
- per package/version in package.use
and the presence of layman does not change this rule in any way.
Actually this makes sense - all layman does for portage is provide a
whole new bunch of ebuilds to select from. Portage is not aware of
layman and so can't change the way it deals with USE flags because of
layman
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Alan McKinnon
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Neil Bothwick
How to set package.use for layman overlays
On Sun, 18 May 2008 09:01:12 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> There is no way to set use flags separately for packages in overlays.
That's not always true. If the overlay provides a version that is not in
portage, like a cat/pkg-9999 for a CVS/SVN ebuild, then a
version-specific entry in package.use will only affect the overlay
version.
However, /etc/portage/package.use is the correct place to set
package-specific USE variables fro all packages, no matter whether they
come from an overlay or the portage tree.
How to set package.use for layman overlays
