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From: Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] /etc/make.profile/use.defaults
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 16:04:17
Message-Id: F819C0AE-A42D-11D8-9922-0003938E7E46@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] /etc/make.profile/use.defaults by Andrew Gaffney
1 On 12 May 2004, at 17:44, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
2
3 > But they are only 'scheduled for installation' if the USE flag is
4 > activated. The '--emptytree' flag gets emerge in some weird 'chicken
5 > and egg' situation. With '--emptytree' set, emerge should assume
6 > nothing is installed. If nothing is installed, then tcl and tk aren't
7 > installed and the 'tcltk' USE flag shouldn't be auto-activated.
8
9 true, unless of course tcl and tk are in the world file, or some other
10 installed package depends on both, and therefore causes the tcltk use
11 flag to be triggered.
12 but it should certainly not auto-enable the USE flag (if it isn't
13 enabled specifically) because the current system has it enabled.
14 --emptytree should assume nothing is installed
15
16 Pieter
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] /etc/make.profile/use.defaults Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@×××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] /etc/make.profile/use.defaults Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>