Am Montag, 10. September 2012, 15:19:38 schrieb Walter Dnes: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 08:41:36AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > > > On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 23:42:45 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > Isn't readline enabled by default on all reasonable profiles? Do > > > > you have USE="-* in make.conf? If so, it's just bitten you. > > > > > > > Yup. I did that to avoid further surprises after the developers "in > > > > > > their infinite wisdom" had IPV6 "enabled by default on all reasonable > > > profiles". Watching Firefox and mplayer spinning their wheels for 45 > > > seconds at a time till IPV6 lookups timed out was not fun. > > > > I'd rather have that that an unusable shell. As was noted elsewhere > > this weekend, even if a USE flag is set but renamed, -* screws it up. > > So no matter what I do or don't do, a developer can find a way to > screw me up. Next thing you know, I'll have to re-partition my system > or else replace udev with mdev, to boot up... oops.
wtf are you talking about? Just because you are unable to look at changed useflags when glancing over the output of emerge -a is not an excuse for using something idiotic like -*. Doing so and then complaining is just vile. -- #163933
