> > It prevents emerge from crashing out in the middle of what could be a > > quite extensive build. Personally, I would rather rebuild one package > > to get desired functionality _after_ the emerge completes than have to > > fix the flags for that one package to be able to build everything else.
This is why Ciaran and I opened a bug for the Portage team to get this handled up-front. Alas, I can't find the bug any more to reference it here :( You're assuming that a user can figure out how to fix the one package when they realise it's broken. Unless a user looks inside the ebuild, they're not going to understand why the USE flags they've selected has resulted in a package that doesn't actually have those features. Chances are, the user will never look. This is going to *create* more support, not reduce it. That's hardly a worthy outcome. Best regards, Stu -- [email protected] mailing list
