Re: [gentoo-user] Portage option "--changed-use" not working?

[Dale]

Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
> On 19 January 2012 14:28, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>> Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> In "man emerge" I read:
>>>
>>> --changed-use
>>>   Tells  emerge  to  include  installed packages where USE flags have
>>> changed since installation. This option also implies the --selective
>>> option. Unlike --newuse, the --changed-use option does not trigger
>>> reinstallation when flags that the user has not enabled are added or
>>> removed.
>>>
>>> So I always include "--changed-use" when upgrading @world. But with
>>> the removal of kdeenablefinal I now get 150 reinstalls with
>>> changed-use. This seems to be contradicting the man page? Or am I
>>> misunderstanding things? Or did I misconfigure something? To be clear,
>>> I have never enabled kdeenablefinal.
>>>
>>> The full command I usually run is
>>>
>>> emerge --verbose --deep --with-bdeps=y --complete-graph --update
>>> --changed-use --keep-going world
>>>
>>> should that be relevant.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Hilco
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Just to be clear, it was a dev that changed the kdeenablefinal flag.  It
>> was sort of discussed on -dev.  I think the dev that did it doesn't use
>> -N so it doesn't affect him and I guess he thinks it won't affect others
>> either.
>
> I know and I don't mind the kdeenablefinal flag being removed. That
> makes perfect sense.
>
> It's just that --changed-use ought to have prevented the 150
> unnecessary reinstalls. Or at least, I think it should have. :-)
>
>


Well, the USE flag got changed.  Isn't that what -N is supposed to do?

Dale

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