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From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:08:32
Message-Id: 200610301302.16699.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] X USE flag by Alan McKinnon
1 On Monday 30 October 2006 11:01, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > Looks like the tree was busy over the weekend :-). My regular sync and
5 > emerge world this morning results in just about every x11 package
6 > wanting to be rebuilt. Lots of stuff like this:
7 >
8 > [ebuild R ] x11-libs/xtrans-1.0.2 USE="X%* -debug" 0 kB
9 > [ebuild R ] x11-apps/mkfontdir-1.0.2 USE="X%* -debug" 0 kB
10 > [ebuild R ] x11-apps/mkfontscale-1.0.2 USE="X%* -debug" 0 kB
11 > [ebuild R ] x11-libs/libfontenc-1.0.3 USE="X%* -debug" 0 kB
12 > [ebuild R ] x11-proto/xproto-7.0.8 USE="X%* -debug" 0 kB
13 > [ebuild R ] x11-misc/util-macros-1.1.1 USE="X%* -debug" 0 kB
14 >
15 > What's up with this? I've always had X in my USE, the ebuilds haven't
16 > changed, a few that I checked inherit only x-modular which doesn't seem
17 > to affect it either. And I'm not relishing the many hours of compiling
18 > this is going to entail. So two questions:
19 >
20 > 1. What's causing these packages to have an X use flag at all?
21 > 2. Why use such a flag at all? These are X11 packages, seems kinda
22 > pointless to compile such a thing without X11 support...
23
24 The x-modular.eclass now inherits the font.eclass ...
25
26 http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/eclass/x-modular.eclass?r1=1.77&r2=1.78
27 http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/eclass/font.eclass?rev=1.21&view=markup
28
29 --
30 Bo Andresen

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Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>