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Mark Knecht writes: |
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> Sort of strange. One of my machines just showed up wanting to rebuild |
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> about 25 packages due to a USE flag change? All the packages were |
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> showing -perl and/or -python. Seemed like a strange change at this |
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> point in the life of a desktop PC so I added both flags to make.conf |
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> and the machine is once again content to update just a couple of |
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> packages. |
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> I don't recall seeing any discussion about this.Was there?? |
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There was a message on the gentoo-announce list on Sept. 30th: |
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Hello, |
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In a few days, USE={python,perl} will be removed from the profile |
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defaults. There has been sufficient levels of testing so the impact to |
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users will be small besides a potentially large number of rebuilds |
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which should not be a cause for alarm. The end result will be |
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beneficial for a vast majority of people. |
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See further reading: |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/msg_ae405bb743eeda9dc66773998ee50759.xml |
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Thanks, |
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Jeremy |
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It has also been discussed a little here, at least in the 'tabbed |
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x11-terms/rxvt-unicode' thread. But that only deals with some |
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implications of the flag removal, not so much about why they have been |
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removed. I think. |
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Wonko |
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