Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with the "hardened" USE flag?

[Andrea Conti]

Hello,

> Everyone will get this. The culprit is a change in the
> pax-utils.eclass [1]. Which adds USE="hardened to every consumer" of
> the eclass.

That's IUSE, not USE. USE flags are not touched (at least on
non-hardened systems), so the change is only picked up by emerge if you
use the --new-use option.

> It changes nothing for non hardened users but forces a
> rebuild of the affected packages.

If you're positively sure that a package's USE flags did not change
since when it was last compiled, you can avoid recompiling by adding (or
removing) the "hardened" flag in /var/db/pkg/<category>/<package>/IUSE.

andrea