Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-12 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/12/2012 12:29 AM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Michael, On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: Portage doesn't know what you want to do, so it does the safe thing and lets you decide. Either, Somewhat tongue-in-cheek: I don't know either. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:29:48 -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Portage doesn't know what you want to do, so it does the safe thing and lets you decide. Either, I don't know either. I don't want udev, udisks, hwdb or even know what they are. Somebody else wants all that stuff on my system

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:57:42 -0700 Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Background: I enable USE flags by adding them to /etc/portage/package.use. This file is filled with all sorts of personal preference customizations of my system. This file does not contain

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:57:42 -0700 Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: Today emerge is asking me to add =sys-fs/udev-171-r6 hwdb to package.use to appease udisk. Just as before, this looks fishy to me and I would like to get your opinion about how to

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:57:42 -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote about [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb: [snip] A month ago emerge insisted that I enable a USE flag ruby_targets_ruby19 to a bunch of packages on my system. That is not really coded as a USE flag. You should put that in /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: I think Chris' question is more about why he has to manually activate this USE flag, as it seems to be necessary anyway, in his case. Alex, Yes this is correct. I see now I was far too wordy in the OP and thank you for

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/11/2012 07:30 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: I think Chris' question is more about why he has to manually activate this USE flag, as it seems to be necessary anyway, in his case. Alex, Yes this is correct. I see

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Michael, On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: Portage doesn't know what you want to do, so it does the safe thing and lets you decide. Either, Somewhat tongue-in-cheek: I don't know either. I don't want udev, udisks, hwdb or even know what they are.

[gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, Background: I enable USE flags by adding them to /etc/portage/package.use. This file is filled with all sorts of personal preference customizations of my system. This file does not contain required system USE flags. A month ago emerge insisted that I enable a USE flag