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From: Rumen Yotov <rumen@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.1 weirdness
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:35:32
Message-Id: 4491C2A8.90304@qrypto.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.1 weirdness by Sergio Polini
1 Sergio Polini wrote:
2 > Mick:
3 >> As I understand it (I'm sure this has been covered in GWN, forums,
4 >> etc.) USE flags which had been set automatically by certain
5 >> packages are no longer valid universally. Therefore, either add
6 >> those USE flags missing (e.g. ldap & mozilla for OOo) in your
7 >> /etc/make.conf, or if you only want them for a particular package
8 >> add them in /etc/portage/package.use.
9 >
10 > I'm sure (I'ld like to be sure) that this change is documented
11 > somewhere, but I can't find where.
12 > I need documentation because I'm an advanced user of some packages
13 > (f.i., tetex), but a naive user of other ones (f.i., xine). So I
14 > can't understand why and how I should re-emerge xine because of:
15 >
16 > [ebuild R ] media-video/xine-ui-0.99.4-r5 USE="X ncurses nls
17 > readline -aalib -curl* -libcaca -lirc -vdr -xinerama" 0 kB
18 >
19 > Any hints?
20 >
21 > Thanks
22 > Sergio
23 Hi,
24 This is because of a new USE-flag "-curl*" which previously was ON.
25 Means you'll have to reemerge "xine-ui" or enable 'curl' for xine-ui in
26 package.use.
27 HTH.Rumen

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