On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 20:41:28 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:

>   I updated world yesterday, and discovered that bash functionality was
> severly degraded on my machine.  No up-arrow to scroll through history,
> no tab-completion, etc, etc.  A bit of Google searching turned up the
> fact that bash no-longer uses an internal "readline" library, but now
> depends on the "readline" USE flag for this functionality.  If you don't
> have "readline" globally enabled set...

Isn't readline enabled by default on all reasonable profiles? Do you have
USE="-* in make.conf? If so, it's just bitten you.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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