2011/6/22 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk>: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:18:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: >> #required by www-client/dillo-2.2, required by mail-client/claws- >> mail-3.7.9-r1[dillo], required by claws-mail (argument) >> >=x11-libs/fltk-2.0_pre6970-r1 -cairo > >> Any reason why portage is telling me to set a USE that is already >> there per portage's own output? > > As Daniel said, this is what portage needs, it's been that way since the > autounmask stuff was introduced. Or you could emerge Claws with -dillo > and use the fancy plugin for HTML rendering. I stopped using the dillo > renderer years ago.
Actually it is like that since the introduction of use-dependencies like cat/pkg-ver[use] and _before_. Autounmask ist just for the users convenience to copy paste the needed changes to package.use. I guess the reason for this coming up more often is that develpopers start to use use-dependencies more often. Before the introduction of use dependencies the only possible way was to stop emerge at build time and tell the user he needs USE="X" for package Y. With use dependencies it is now possible to inform the user about it when resolving the dependencies. So nothing has changed. If a package requires use settings which are different from the defaults you have to override this on a per package basis via package.use. -- Regards, Daniel
