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Thanks Alan, but... |
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On 6/14/2014 10:16 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 14/06/2014 15:30, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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>> This clearly shows the -openrc USE flag being applied. |
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> You read it wrong. The USE flag is not being applied it's being removed |
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> (the minus "-"), |
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Well, I did include the hyphen(-), so I meant in the negative (removed) |
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sense. |
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> and the reason it is being removed is that it doesn't exist for the |
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> new ebuild. That's what the parenthesis means. |
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Ah... ok, I'd forgotten about the significance of the ()... |
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But... |
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>> Googling didn't reveal an answer... |
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> It's in the emerge man page. If not there, is one of the man pages from |
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> portage |
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Ok, that explains the meaning of the (), but doesn't explain this |
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*change* satisfactorily (to a non-coder at least)... |
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*Why* was it removed/no longer needed? And why was it needed previously? |
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Since udev (and openrc vs systemd) is such a huge topic lately, I think |
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this should be clearly explained, possibly even warranting a news item. |
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I still, even after your answer, don't really understand why and whether |
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or not this is 'normal', or going to bite me later big time. |
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Thanks again, I'd like to do this upgrade this weekend, but I don't |
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upgrade system critical packages without fully understanding changes |
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like this. |
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