On 14/06/2014 16:31, Tanstaafl wrote: > Thanks Alan, but... > > On 6/14/2014 10:16 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 14/06/2014 15:30, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> This clearly shows the -openrc USE flag being applied. >> >> You read it wrong. The USE flag is not being applied it's being removed >> (the minus "-"), > > Well, I did include the hyphen(-), so I meant in the negative (removed) > sense. > >> and the reason it is being removed is that it doesn't exist for the >> new ebuild. That's what the parenthesis means. > > Ah... ok, I'd forgotten about the significance of the ()... > > But... > >>> Googling didn't reveal an answer... >> >> It's in the emerge man page. If not there, is one of the man pages from >> portage > > Ok, that explains the meaning of the (), but doesn't explain this > *change* satisfactorily (to a non-coder at least)...
This has already been answered by others, but to summarize: The reason it is not obvious is that the answer is not in the output, the output only gives a summary of what is to be done. The answer is *always" in the ebuild and Changelog. Sometimes it's on Google too, but that is unreliable. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
