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On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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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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> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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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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Interesting. I guess I'm no longer subscribed 'cause I haven't seen a |
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message from there in months. I'll go resubscribe. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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