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Apparently, though unproven, at 02:20 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Walter |
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Dnes did opine thusly: |
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> Because I don't want a repeat of the ipv6 fiasco where I had an almost |
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> non-functional browser, mediaplayer (for internet files), etc, etc. And |
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> I also had to run "emerge --newuse --update world" and inspect the |
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> output from "emerge -pv --depclean" and remove additional stuff, and |
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> then revdep-rebuild to clean up the resulting extra "goodies". If I |
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> don't use "-*" what's the next flag that the devs will add? And how many |
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> of my current packages will link against it? |
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emerge -avuND world will show you, in colour, USE flags that have changed. You |
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can then decide what to do about them. |
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Your way, you have to explicitly add back in all the flags you want. You will |
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not receive the benefit of seeing changed defaults (and there might be a good |
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reason for the change, but now you will miss them). You also just trashed most |
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of the usefulness of profiles and have to manually tracked all default USE |
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changes yourself. |
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The usual way (not to do what you do) still lets you control as much as you |
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want but with the minimum effort as opposed to the maximum effort. You will |
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only need to make a decision when a decision needs to be made. |
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Why are you making more work for yourself? Portage is software, let it do what |
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software is good at - removing drudge work from your life so you can get on |
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with the important things, stuff that needs thought |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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