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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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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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>> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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Ahh, I figured something like this, just hadn't RTFM apparently. That's |
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what I get for living on the edge. |
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Cheers |
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