On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:27 AM Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 05/11/2018 17:30, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2018-11-04, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 03/11/2018 16:01, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >>> The developers, in this instance, failed to raise the ebuild's version > >>> number from 1.20.3 when making this change, and also didn't notify users > >>> by a NEWS item, that I can see. > >> > >> Emerge will catch this, no need for revbump. Unless you're not using -D > >> (--deep) when updating world. Which you should. > > > > What do you mean "catch this"? > > > > I always use -D, and the change broke my system. > > I mean that a USE flag change will trigger a rebuild of the package
-D will not cause USE flag changes to trigger a rebuild of a package. You're thinking of --newuse in this particular case. I'm not sure if --changed-use would cause a rebuild if the previous flag was defaulted to enabled and not explicitly enabled (of course, if it were explicitly enabled you wouldn't have run into this issue). -- Rich
