Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the introspection USE flag for glib being removed by emerge?

[Allan Gottlieb]

On Thu, Aug 25 2011, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:

> See the "[1]" at the end of this line you posted:
>
>
>    [ebuild   R   *] dev-libs/glib-9999  USE="static-libs -debug -doc
> -fam (-introspection) (-selinux) -test -xattr" 0 kB [1]
>
> That means this ebuilds come from an overlay, so it's your
> responsibility to look over it.

Actually the removal came from
/usr/portage/profiles/base/package.use.mask.

The problem I incurred was triggered by a faulty gnome-games ebuild in
the gnome overlay (the overlay referred to by the [1]).

It is fixed now and all is well.

Thanks for your interest.
allan