Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:08:57 -0600, Dale wrote:
> 
>>>> Sometimes my problem is it is like shooting skeet, it's a
>>>> moving target. Sometimes it moves pretty darn fast too.  Zac
>>>> adds it faster than I can keep up.  I wish they would
>>>> announce new stuff when it get released, both unstable and
>>>> stable.  Then again, maybe it moves so fast he can't keep up
>>>> either.  lol
>>> 
>>> --changed-use has been around for many years.
> 
>> It sounds like the way it works has changed tho.  I don't think I
>> have used that option before so I don't know how it used to work.
>> I think the OP thinks the same.  Something changed I guess.  We
>> all know that after the build output disappeared a while back.
> 
> It hasn't changed and generally works as expected. I suspect this
> is specific to the KDE ebuilds (or eclass). changed-use should only
> skip an ebuild with changed flags if re-emerging would produce
> exactly the same code as before, this may not be the case. For
> example, in some ebuilds, it is the absence of a USE flag that
> triggers an extra configure option, so removing that use flag would
> give the same code as if the package had been emerged with it
> enabled.
> 
> Something like this happened recently with the nls flag on glibc.
> 
> 


I'll take your word for it.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)

-- 
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood
or how you interpreted my words!

Miss the compile output?  Hint:
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"

Reply via email to