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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?
Date: Sun, 16 May 2021 10:01:27
Message-Id: a710a72f-0d53-ce01-0d06-7d8010495f5c@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean? by n952162
1 n952162 wrote:
2 > On 5/15/21 7:24 AM, Dan Egli wrote:
3 >> The R status means REBUILD. Usually, if it's an @world it's pulling
4 >> that in because something about that package changed and so it needs
5 >> to rebuild it. The --noreplace option would block that if portage
6 >> didn't think it was needed. Based on your options, I'd say that it's
7 >> probably a USE flag was changed. I don't use binpkgs myself,
8 >> preferring to compile except in certain circumstances (can we say
9 >> RUST!?) that I need to use a -bin variant. You can try without it, but
10 >> I recommend leaving your change-use and newuse flags in place and
11 >> letting the system rebuild xmodmap.
12 >>
13 >>
14 > Yes, thank you, but neither the server nor the client have any USE flags
15 > for that package defined.  And the package has to be pretty stable by
16 > now  ;-)
17 >
18 >
19 >
20 >
21
22 All packages have USE flags defined somewhere even if you haven't
23 defined any yourself.  Some are defined in profiles, some are defined
24 elsewhere.  When I do updates, I see changes to USE flags all the time
25 that were changed by the profile, the maintainer in the ebuild or
26 somewhere else.  After all, if a package doesn't have the USE flags
27 defined somewhere, emerge won't know what USE flags to include or
28 exclude support for. 
29
30 Dale
31
32 :-)  :-) 

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Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean? n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean? Andreas Fink <finkandreas@×××.de>