On 19 January 2012 14:28, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> 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. >> >> The full command I usually run is >> >> emerge --verbose --deep --with-bdeps=y --complete-graph --update >> --changed-use --keep-going world >> >> should that be relevant. >> >> Cheers, >> Hilco >> >> > > > Just to be clear, it was a dev that changed the kdeenablefinal flag. It > was sort of discussed on -dev. I think the dev that did it doesn't use > -N so it doesn't affect him and I guess he thinks it won't affect others > either.
I know and I don't mind the kdeenablefinal flag being removed. That makes perfect sense. It's just that --changed-use ought to have prevented the 150 unnecessary reinstalls. Or at least, I think it should have. :-)
