On Tuesday 28 November 2006 18:40, Caleb Cushing wrote:
> I know that newuse is stricter now. but do my packages really have to
> want to rebuild because a flag was hard masked. e.g. arts when I had
> -arts in my make.conf already? seems like it's a little too strict.
This is not because of a use.mask over a flag, I'm afraid. I've removed some 
arts useflags in the past days, a they are currently showing everywhere 
there's a kde eclass uasage, this is suboptimal as most of the times arts is 
not actually needed there.

When a flag is removed from a package it might be the same as having it 
disabled or enabled, it depends, so --newuse does its job by rebuilding the 
package.

Indeed even when a package _requires_ arts, I remove the useflag and force 
arts on.

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