On 07/06/2016 01:02 PM, Franz Fellner wrote: >> >> It looks to me like USE=vanilla controls only whether or not bundled >> timezone data is used. If that's the case (double-check!), it's probably >> safe to unmerge timezone-data and re-emerge glibc with USE=vanilla. > > There is a huge glibc-2.23-patches-4.tar.bz2 in my DISTDIR and the patches > get applied. >
Yeah, but they get applied even with USE=vanilla. You can check by beginning the emerge, and then hitting Ctrl-C while it's compiling. Scroll up and you should see a bunch of "Applying..." lines.
