Re: [gentoo-user] newuse vs changed-use (and python3_6)

On Thu, Jul 19 2018, Roger J. H. Welsh wrote: >> emerge --pretend --newuse ... @world >> shows 15 rebuilds while --changed-use shows none. > --changed-use prevents your system from remerging packages > due to USE flag changes upstream (not made by you). > >>eselect python show >>

Re: [gentoo-user] newuse vs changed-use (and python3_6)

> emerge --pretend --newuse ... @world > shows 15 rebuilds while --changed-use shows none. --changed-use prevents your system from remerging packages due to USE flag changes upstream (not made by you). >eselect python show > indicates python3.4, which I realize has end of life next year.

[gentoo-user] newuse vs changed-use (and python3_6)

I realize just now that one of my machines uses emerge ... --newuse ... and the other uses emerge ... --changed-use ... Both run gentoo stable. I imagine this discrepancy has been there for a long while and to date has caused no particular difficulty. However, today the --changed-use

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner problem

> On 2018-07-18, at 04:16, Philip Webb wrote: > > (3) I can scan without problems using Mint Xfce (on another partition), > so it's not a hardware problem. > > (4) 'lsusb' lists "Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0418: 013b Seiko Epson Corp". > > (5) the 'epkowa' driver is the latest version : a

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner problem

Thanks for the replies so far, which I've followed up with ideas of my own. (1) In /etc/sane.d/dll.conf (at the end) it lists # Add support for the Epson-specific backend. Needs media-gfx/iscan installed epkowa I've installed 'iscan', but it makes no difference. (2) The 2 pkgs which