November 22, 2018 4:41 PM, "gevisz" <[email protected]> wrote:

> After recent bug with changed Xorg-server suid use flag,
> I became very suspicious about spontanеous use flag
> shanges during system update and check them all.
> 
> Today, I noticed the following attemped to change use flags
> in my Gentoo system during update:
> 
> # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=120 --ask world
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild R ] dev-util/ninja-1.8.2 USE="(-zsh-completion%)"
> [ebuild R ] media-video/ffmpeg-3.3.6 USE="(-celt%)"
> [ebuild R ] media-video/vlc-3.0.4 USE="(-schroedinger%)"
> 
> The problem is that
> $ equery uses ffmpeg
> and
> $ equery uses vlc
> commands show no celt and schroedinger use flags at all.
> 
> Why?

Because they are not in the ebuild IUSE anymore (hence the %).

From man emerge
>               %        suffix      newly added or removed

Best regards
Corentin “Nado” Pazdera

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