walt wrote:
Somewhere deep in the bowels of portage my 'introspection' useflag is
vanishing -- but on just one of my three machines.
I set the introspection useflag on all three machines (two ~amd64 and
one ~x86) but when I run emerge --info, only two of the machines show
the introspection useflag in the output. Why?
All three machines share the same /usr/portage by NFS, so they all
see the same use.mask and use.force files, etc.
I'm running the default linux desktop gnome profile on all three.
I tried deleting my /etc/portage/* on the problem machine, which made
no difference.
I even tried using an empty make.conf and adding the single line
USE="introspection", but that made no difference either.
When I flip other useflags in make.conf the changes show up in the
output of emerge --info, but not when I flip 'introspection'.
Two days wasted and I'm out of ideas.
Anyone understand the details of emerge --info or what I can do to
diagnose this problem?
I searched the -dev mailing list and only found references to the flag
being enabled on a lot of packages. It appears to be a Gnome thing but
don't quote me on it. Is it possible that it is enable by default
whether it is set or not? There was talk of making it on in the profile
instead of make.conf.
I would do a emerge -pv <package that uses the flag> and see if it shows
up there. If it is a small package, compile it then see if it is built
in or not. If it is, then they have it turned on somewhere. This is a
bug report that you can read on too.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324989
That help any?
Dale
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