Mark Knecht writes:
> Sort of strange. One of my machines just showed up wanting to rebuild
> about 25 packages due to a USE flag change? All the packages were
> showing -perl and/or -python. Seemed like a strange change at this
> point in the life of a desktop PC so I added both flags to make.conf
> and the machine is once again content to update just a couple of
> packages.
>
> I don't recall seeing any discussion about this.Was there??
There was a message on the gentoo-announce list on Sept. 30th:
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Hello,
In a few days, USE={python,perl} will be removed from the profile
defaults. There has been sufficient levels of testing so the impact to
users will be small besides a potentially large number of rebuilds
which should not be a cause for alarm. The end result will be
beneficial for a vast majority of people.
See further reading:
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/msg_ae405bb743eeda9dc66773998ee50759.xml
Thanks,
Jeremy
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It has also been discussed a little here, at least in the 'tabbed
x11-terms/rxvt-unicode' thread. But that only deals with some
implications of the flag removal, not so much about why they have been
removed. I think.
Wonko
