Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mark Shields <laebshade@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:07:01
Message-Id: 642958cc0611010957p5f662326je9088e2c25050d49@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag by Neil Bothwick
1 On 10/31/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:13:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
4 >
5 > > I let the emerge run anyway last night, took about 2 hours for 143
6 > > packages, lots of them just fonts which install quickly. So now I guess
7 > > It'll have to be done again in a day or three.
8 >
9 > If you add X to /var/db/pkg/category/package-version/IUSE for each of
10 > the affected packages, portage won't try to emerge them again.
11 >
12 > It's a kludge, but it works if portage was only going to build the same
13 > files again.
14 >
15 >
16 > --
17 > Neil Bothwick
18 >
19 > Help! I've fallen and I can't get down! - James Brown
20 >
21 >
22 >
23 A re-emerge today brought back those same packages with the X flag profile
24 masked. Hmm...
25
26 --
27 - Mark Shields

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Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>