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From:	Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.edu>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?
Date:	Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:14:50
Message-Id:	`20080213211441.GA19985@math.princeton.edu`
In Reply to:	Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge? by Sergey Kobzar

1	On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:53:29PM +0200, Sergey Kobzar wrote:
2	> > Not so fast. Check to see if you do have the xattr flag enabled.
3	>
4	> In the kernel config probably?
5
6	No, I mean the USE variable.
7
8	> > The entry for attr is a conditional dependency: you don't need it if
9	> > you don't have the xattr flag. (Equery is, at present, not smart
10	> > enough to decipher dependency from USE.)
11	>
12	> # emerge --info \| grep -i attr
13	> #
14
15	Right, so that means you don't have the xattr flag enabled. Which
16	means you don't actually have a dependency on attr.
17
18	W
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