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From: covici@××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] serious problems trying to go to new abi_x86_32 support
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 12:22:39
Message-Id: 15035.1429964546@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] serious problems trying to go to new abi_x86_32 support by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2
3 > On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 06:45:16 -0400, covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
4 >
5 > > > The only thing you gain is being able to run 32-bit applications
6 > > > against those libraries, even if you don't have any need to. The only
7 > > > thing you lose is a bunch of inodes, and maybe some compile time.
8 > >
9 > > Well, that clarifies things a bit -- what is strange is that I had to do
10 > > about 70 packages beffore portage would let the preserved-rebuild go
11 > > through, for future reference is there an automatic way to add all the
12 > > use flags, even the packages which already have other use flags?
13 >
14 > The --autounmask option for emerge does that (you still have to confirm
15 > the changes with etc-update). This is enabled by default, so it appears
16 > you have disabled it in make.conf if you are not already seeing the offer
17 > to add the packages.
18
19 Yep, I disabled it -- I didn't know autounmask included use flags as
20 well -- thanks for that.
21
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26
27 John Covici
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