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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Stricter --newuse settings
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:40:05
Message-Id: 456DB725.9040402@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Stricter --newuse settings by Vlastimil Babka
1 Vlastimil Babka wrote:
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5 > Duncan wrote:
6 >> whatever USE flag removal forcing --newuser rebuild, when I as a /human/
7 >> know it's not needed.
8 >
9 > If you're sure you know it's not needed, just edit
10 > /var/db/pkg/$cat/$pkg/{USE,IUSE} to reflect that (i.e. if there was arts
11 > flag removed and you know the ebuild didn't actually need/use it, remove
12 > it from IUSE, and possibly USE) and --newuse won't trigger no more.
13 > It's a bit of hack, but works, for user it's the same amount of work as
14 > editing some newuse.mask file, for portage developers it's no work :)
15 >
16 > - --
17 > Vlastimil Babka (Caster)
18 > Gentoo/Java
19
20 oi, don't recommend people edit the vdb *cringes*
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[gentoo-dev] Re: Stricter --newuse settings Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>