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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage option "--changed-use" not working?
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:09:11
Message-Id: 20120122000748.6b933ffc@fuchsia.remarqs.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage option "--changed-use" not working? by Walter Dnes
1 On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:34:52 -0500
2 "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
3
4 > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 08:23:18PM -0600, ??Q?? wrote
5 >
6 > > Thanks for the points you've made about how removal of a flag a user
7 > > doesn't have enabled could still affect the user. I think I'll
8 > > still use --changed-use routinely and also periodically run an
9 > > update with --newuse.
10 >
11 > What's the longest that most software on Gentoo goes without an
12 > update? The next update would, by definition, fix any breakage caused
13 > by a dropped flag.
14
15 That's true, but it won't hurt me to emerge -puNDv world every once in a
16 while. I have an alias for it anyway, and I don't think I could break
17 the habit of typing it occasionally.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage option "--changed-use" not working? Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>