Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > 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. :-) > >
Well, the USE flag got changed. Isn't that what -N is supposed to do? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
