On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 03:19:29PM -0500, Dale wrote > When doing upgrades, I agree it is always wise to look at all USE flag > changes. Having USE flags is a Gentoo feature but if not monitored > correctly, it can be a curse as well. It can cause havoc and makes > things not work correctly or add features one doesn't want.
I learned this "the hard way" when the Gentoo devs "in their infinite wisdom" made "+ipv6" the default. Web browsers and wget, etc, would spin their wheels for 45 seconds on IPV6 lookups, before failing over to IPV4. I don't recall a news item. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
