On 19 January 2012 13:30, »Q« <boxc...@gmx.net> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:07:09 -0800 > Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In "man emerge" I read: >> >> --changed-use >> Tells emerge to include installed packages where USE flags have >> changed since installation. This option also implies the --selective >> option. Unlike --newuse, the --changed-use option does not trigger >> reinstallation when flags that the user has not enabled are added or >> removed. >> >> So I always include "--changed-use" when upgrading @world. But with >> the removal of kdeenablefinal I now get 150 reinstalls with >> changed-use. This seems to be contradicting the man page? Or am I >> misunderstanding things? Or did I misconfigure something? To be clear, >> I have never enabled kdeenablefinal. > > I don't have an answer -- this is just a "me too" post. I see the same > behavior.
Thank you. I was starting to feel lonely. :-) In case you're interested, I managed to work around the 150 unnecessary reinstalls by removing all 'kdeenablefinal' references in /var/db/pkg/*/*/IUSE. This seems to work very well but it may have unintended side effects that I'm not aware of.
