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On 02/28/2013 11:16 AM, »Q« wrote: |
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> A new useflag, tinfo, has been added for ncurses. I would have |
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> expected ncurses not to be rebuilt when I specify --changed-use, but |
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> portage does want to rebuild it. This isn't causing me any problem, |
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> but I'd like to understand what's going on. I guess I should note that |
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> I'm using portage-2.1.11.50 and that |
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> I'm one of those hardheads who has USE="-*" in make.conf. |
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Ah, a masochist. You're perfect for gentoo ;) |
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> I currently have ncurses-5.9-r2 installed with |
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> USE="cxx gpm static-libs unicode -ada -debug -doc -minimal -profile |
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> -trace". |
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> $ emerge -pvuD --changed-use @world |
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> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> [ebuild R ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r2:5 USE="cxx gpm static-libs |
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> unicode -ada -debug -doc -minimal -profile -tinfo% -trace" 0 kB |
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The '%' symbol just means that the tinfo flag was introduced after your |
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most recent build of ncurses. The '-' symbol means that portage will |
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rebuild ncurses without tinfo -- exactly like your existing build of |
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ncurses :) Makes perfect sense if you happen to be a computer. |
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My favorite peeve is when a libreoffice useflag is added for, say, |
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support for Swahili or Urdu, and now I'm forced to rebuild all of |
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libreoffice just to re-install libreoffice without support for Urdu |
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or Swahili. If I were a computer I'd agree immediately with that |
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reasoning. |
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