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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses "readline" USE flag
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:10:43
Message-Id: 3138135.l43KtUZEda@energy
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses "readline" USE flag by Walter Dnes
1 Am Montag, 10. September 2012, 15:19:38 schrieb Walter Dnes:
2 > On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 08:41:36AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
3 >
4 > > On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 23:42:45 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
5 > > > > Isn't readline enabled by default on all reasonable profiles? Do
6 > > > > you have USE="-* in make.conf? If so, it's just bitten you.
7 > > > >
8 > > > Yup. I did that to avoid further surprises after the developers "in
9 > > >
10 > > > their infinite wisdom" had IPV6 "enabled by default on all reasonable
11 > > > profiles". Watching Firefox and mplayer spinning their wheels for 45
12 > > > seconds at a time till IPV6 lookups timed out was not fun.
13 > >
14 > > I'd rather have that that an unusable shell. As was noted elsewhere
15 > > this weekend, even if a USE flag is set but renamed, -* screws it up.
16 >
17 > So no matter what I do or don't do, a developer can find a way to
18 > screw me up. Next thing you know, I'll have to re-partition my system
19 > or else replace udev with mdev, to boot up... oops.
20
21 wtf are you talking about? Just because you are unable to look at changed
22 useflags when glancing over the output of emerge -a is not an excuse for using
23 something idiotic like -*.
24
25 Doing so and then complaining is just vile.
26
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Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses "readline" USE flag Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>