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On Thursday 13 May 2004 01:39, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> Jason Stubbs wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 13 May 2004 01:03, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote: |
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> >>>On 12 May 2004, at 17:44, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> >>>>But they are only 'scheduled for installation' if the USE flag is |
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> >>>>activated. The '--emptytree' flag gets emerge in some weird 'chicken |
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> >>>>and egg' situation. With '--emptytree' set, emerge should assume |
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> >>>>nothing is installed. If nothing is installed, then tcl and tk aren't |
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> >>>>installed and the 'tcltk' USE flag shouldn't be auto-activated. |
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> >>> |
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> >>>true, unless of course tcl and tk are in the world file, or some other |
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> >>>installed package depends on both, and therefore causes the tcltk use |
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> >>>flag to be triggered. |
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> >>>but it should certainly not auto-enable the USE flag (if it isn't |
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> >>>enabled specifically) because the current system has it enabled. |
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> >>>--emptytree should assume nothing is installed |
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> > |
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> > This one, I'm undecided on. Strictly, --emptytree should assume nothing |
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> > is installed. In practice though, many users use it to reinstall |
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> > everything. If --emptytree does actually assume nothing is installed, |
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> > users could find themselves with blocked packages overwriting each other |
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> > and wonderful things like that. |
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> > |
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> > Two options I see are: |
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> > a) Keep current behaviour |
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> > b) Make --emptytree a --pretend only option and create a new --reinstall. |
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> |
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> I think it is more of a consistency bug than a function bug. I don't |
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> believe it causes any problems in practice, and I only stumbled across is |
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> because of the project I'm working on. I don't think it actually affects |
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> anyone. |
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But if the current behaviour was changed, there would be many that notice. |
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Jump into #gentoo or post on gentoo-user@g.o and ask how to reinstall |
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everything. You'll get many answers of emerge -e world and a few saying that |
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it's not enough and that you'll have to emerge $(qpkg -I). |
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Regards, |
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Jason Stubbs |
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