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From: "Corentin “Nado” Pazdera" <nado@××××××××××.be>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Something strange with use flags
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 15:55:40
Message-Id: 39f09a1bee6af6c337eaa644a5a403f0@troglodyte.be
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Something strange with use flags by gevisz
1 November 22, 2018 4:41 PM, "gevisz" <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > After recent bug with changed Xorg-server suid use flag,
4 > I became very suspicious about spontanеous use flag
5 > shanges during system update and check them all.
6 >
7 > Today, I noticed the following attemped to change use flags
8 > in my Gentoo system during update:
9 >
10 > # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=120 --ask world
11 >
12 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
13 >
14 > Calculating dependencies... done!
15 > [ebuild R ] dev-util/ninja-1.8.2 USE="(-zsh-completion%)"
16 > [ebuild R ] media-video/ffmpeg-3.3.6 USE="(-celt%)"
17 > [ebuild R ] media-video/vlc-3.0.4 USE="(-schroedinger%)"
18 >
19 > The problem is that
20 > $ equery uses ffmpeg
21 > and
22 > $ equery uses vlc
23 > commands show no celt and schroedinger use flags at all.
24 >
25 > Why?
26
27 Because they are not in the ebuild IUSE anymore (hence the %).
28
29 From man emerge
30 > % suffix newly added or removed
31
32 Best regards
33 Corentin “Nado” Pazdera

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