On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:06:22 +0000 Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Ah, that makes sense -- thanks. (And now I wish I'd read the entire thread in dev before I posted a few minutes ago.) IMO, the man page's section on --changed-use should say what you've just said rather than what it says now.
