Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:34:22 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:

> Same here on ~amd64. The last change is that cups is mandatory now, so
> the cups USE flag has been removed. I would have preferred if the ebuild
> got a -r2 so I could simply mask it, as compiling it again would not
> change a thing when the cups USE flag was enabled already.

Policy is to not bump the revision if the code it installs is the same.
It could be considered a bug in portage that this change results in a
rebuild with --changed-use.

You can stop it happening by removing cups from
/var/db/pkg/app-office/libreoffice-3.4.3.2-r1/USE, which fools portage
into thinking it was installed without the flag.


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Neil Bothwick

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