On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 08:41:36AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 23:42:45 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > Isn't readline enabled by default on all reasonable profiles? Do > > > you have USE="-* in make.conf? If so, it's just bitten you. > > > > Yup. I did that to avoid further surprises after the developers "in > > their infinite wisdom" had IPV6 "enabled by default on all reasonable > > profiles". Watching Firefox and mplayer spinning their wheels for 45 > > seconds at a time till IPV6 lookups timed out was not fun. > > I'd rather have that that an unusable shell. As was noted elsewhere > this weekend, even if a USE flag is set but renamed, -* screws it up.
So no matter what I do or don't do, a developer can find a way to screw me up. Next thing you know, I'll have to re-partition my system or else replace udev with mdev, to boot up... oops. I do get the occasional message about... foo requires bar to be built with USE flag "oogabooga" when running emerge. I can handle that. Sometimes I even uncover an obscure ebuild bug, e.g. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401651 -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
