On 07/06/2016 01:11 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> >> 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. >
Nevermind, you get different sets of patches with USE=vanilla. The glibc ebuild is using that illegal eblit garbage. You'll have to get an opinion from someone who knows what those patches do.