On Friday 21 November 2003 02:29, Steve Withers wrote:
> I've been steadily adding value to my USE= list......and was surprised
> today to find that it now has only "dvd gtk2"...and all the rest are
> gone.

Have you used ufed to change the USE-flags recently?

I noticed that all my USE-Flags that were in make.conf and make.defaults were 
deleted after I used ufed, i.e. they were deleted from make.conf. All 
negative USE-flags like "-gnome" were left intact. The result is that a 
USE-flag is set in one place. On the other hand if make.defaults would change 
after, say, an emerge sync, the USE-flags settings would change also. I don't 
know if that behaviour of ufed is intended, but I find it actually pretty 
annoying, because I have to check my settings after every update.

BTW, I believe it was ufed that changed my USE= line, but I could be wrong, of 
course. Can somebody confirm this?

> Is this a sign of a badly composed package?

Looks like it.

> I wish I had a backup of my make.conf......

That's a very good idea. I always have at least one copy of make.conf, never 
had problems with system settings.


Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Renat


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