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On 5/16/21 12:01 PM, Dale wrote: |
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> n952162 wrote: |
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>> On 5/15/21 7:24 AM, Dan Egli wrote: |
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>>> The R status means REBUILD. Usually, if it's an @world it's pulling |
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>>> that in because something about that package changed and so it needs |
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>>> to rebuild it. The --noreplace option would block that if portage |
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>>> didn't think it was needed. Based on your options, I'd say that it's |
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>>> probably a USE flag was changed. I don't use binpkgs myself, |
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>>> preferring to compile except in certain circumstances (can we say |
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>>> RUST!?) that I need to use a -bin variant. You can try without it, but |
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>>> I recommend leaving your change-use and newuse flags in place and |
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>>> letting the system rebuild xmodmap. |
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>> Yes, thank you, but neither the server nor the client have any USE flags |
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>> for that package defined. And the package has to be pretty stable by |
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>> now ;-) |
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> All packages have USE flags defined somewhere even if you haven't |
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> defined any yourself. Some are defined in profiles, some are defined |
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> elsewhere. When I do updates, I see changes to USE flags all the time |
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> that were changed by the profile, the maintainer in the ebuild or |
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> somewhere else. After all, if a package doesn't have the USE flags |
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> defined somewhere, emerge won't know what USE flags to include or |
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> exclude support for. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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But if I don't specify that I want something specific, why should |
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portage say, this package has internal differences to the old package, I |
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better not install it? |
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