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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:53:09
Message-Id: 20051015014118.353123f5@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables by Manuel McLure
1 On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:15:17 -0700 Manuel McLure <manuel@××××××.org>
2 wrote:
3 | One question for those with more USE flag-fu than I have - does the
4 | default set of USE flags depend on the packages that have been
5 | installed into world? It seems to me that at some point I have
6 | installed a package (for example postgresql) and suddenly found that
7 | the next "emerge --newuse world" spits out a list of packages it will
8 | rebuild with a new flag.
9
10 Currently, yes. In future portage releases, no.
11
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