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From: Shawn Haggett <podge@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:26:46
Message-Id: 43ED49F2.5090107@podgeweb.com
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4 I recently installed the unstable version of portage (2.1_pre4-r1) so I
5 could get access to the logging facilities (specifically having it send
6 me emails of information instead of needing to watch the emerge output).
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8 However a recent 'emerge -Duva world --newuse' turned up a long list of
9 packages. Closer inspection showed that packages had been built with
10 flags such as mysql, but thought it was now turned off and wanted to
11 rebuild without it. That was odd so I checked ufed first and found it
12 listed the flag as enables in use.defaults. I also then installed
13 profuse and it also reported the flag as enabled in use.defaults and
14 therefore the box was already selected for the use flag, only allowing
15 me to turn it off. I had to instead add the flag into my make.conf file
16 before emerge would see the flag as still being turned on as it should be.
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18 Has anyone else experienced this behaviour? Is it something to do with
19 modifications to how the new portage version handles use flags that
20 hasn't been incorporated into ufed or profuse yet?
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22 Shawn
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Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@××××××××××.com>