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On Friday 10 February 2006 20:20, Shawn Haggett <podge@××××××××.com> wrote |
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about '[gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour': |
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> I recently installed the unstable version of portage. |
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> However a recent 'emerge -Duva world --newuse' turned up a long list of |
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> packages. Closer inspection showed that packages had been built with |
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> flags such as mysql, but thought it was now turned off and wanted to |
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> rebuild without it. |
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> |
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> Has anyone else experienced this behaviour? Is it something to do with |
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> modifications to how the new portage version handles use flags that |
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> hasn't been incorporated into ufed or profuse yet? |
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This is a well-documented change in portage. The use.defaults file is no |
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longer used. Previously, this file would turn on use flags that were |
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neither enabled nor disabled based on packages you had installed. This |
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was a bad idea to begin with, IMHO; RIP use.defaults. |
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. |
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bss03@××××××××××.com |
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