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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge with --changed-use
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:33:13
Message-Id: 20130301143244.52521e9c@fuchsia.remarqs.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge with --changed-use by "»Q«"
1 On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:16:34 -0600
2 »Q« <boxcars@×××.net> wrote:
3
4 > A new useflag, tinfo, has been added for ncurses. I would have
5 > expected ncurses not to be rebuilt when I specify --changed-use, but
6 > portage does want to rebuild it. This isn't causing me any problem,
7 > but I'd like to understand what's going on. I guess I should note
8 > that I'm using portage-2.1.11.50 and that I'm one of those hardheads
9 > who has USE="-*" in make.conf. I currently have ncurses-5.9-r2
10 > installed with USE="cxx gpm static-libs unicode -ada -debug -doc
11 > -minimal -profile -trace".
12 >
13 > $ emerge -pvuD --changed-use @world
14 >
15 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
16 >
17 > Calculating dependencies... done!
18 > [ebuild R ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r2:5 USE="cxx gpm static-libs
19 > unicode -ada -debug -doc -minimal -profile -tinfo% -trace" 0 kB
20 >
21 > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
22
23 Ah, now I believe I see the reason ncurses will be built.
24 app-text/pinfo-0.6.10-r3 (in world) explicitly requires
25 sys-libs/ncurses[-tinfo].