A. Khattri wrote: >On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > > > >>Or don't upgrade anything at all -or- use a more upgrade-friendly system. >> >> > >It is considered good practice to do a dry run with "emere -pv" before >installing any package to see what USE flags are in use and what >dependencies there are. If you dont, then you might get suprises like >this. The Gentoo documentation even mentions this several times. Therefore >the error seems to lie between your keyboard and your chair. > > > > This bit me too, when I upgraded my X server a while ago. And does it really show up when there is a new USE flag that is set to false by default? It sure went past me, anyway, even with emerge -pv.
New USE flags that remove previous functionality when not enabled should be set to true by default, IMHO. -- [email protected] mailing list
