Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On 19 January 2012 19:25, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >>> On 19 January 2012 17:38, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >>>>> On 19 January 2012 16:05, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> Well, the USE flag got changed. Isn't that what -N is supposed to do? >>>>> >>>>> -N == --newuse not --changed-use :-) >>>>> >>>>> It's exactly for this reason that I use --changed-use and not >>>>> --newuse. See the man page for the details. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Well, sort of seems like about the same. The dev changed the USE flag, >>>> it is changed, portage sees it was changed, portage wants to recompile >>>> it with the new/changed flags. >>>> >>>> I'm not exactly clear on the difference between newuse and changed-use. >>>> If you enable a USE flag, it is changed. If you disable a USE flag, it >>>> is changed. If a new flag comes along and it is different than the last >>>> install, then it can be either a new flag or a changed flag. It should >>>> recompile either way. >>> >>> The point here is that a USE flag was removed but it wasn't enabled >>> anyway. So no recompile necessary. Which is what --changed-use is >>> supposed to be for (as I understand the man page). >>> >>>> Maybe there is some subtle difference somewhere that I am missing. >>> >>> Which is why I included what it says in the man page and then referred >>> you to said man page... ;-) >>> >>> >> >> >> Well, when I did mine, it showed up as a change. It was in yellow. >> Maybe your system was different or something. > > Nope, same here. And obviously there was a change: a flag was removed. > But, again, my understanding of --changed-use (as opposed to --newuse) > is that it should have prevented the reinstall. > >> Most man pages are Greek. My Greek is not real good. > > :-) I don't think they're quite that bad although I agree that you > sometimes sort of already need to know where to look. > >
Sometimes my problem is it is like shooting skeet, it's a moving target. Sometimes it moves pretty darn fast too. Zac adds it faster than I can keep up. I wish they would announce new stuff when it get released, both unstable and stable. Then again, maybe it moves so fast he can't keep up either. lol 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"
