[gentoo-user] USE flag oddity

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I don't know what I'm doing.  It seems wise to admit that at the start.
Nobody needs to rub my nose in it that way.

I noticed that as constituted, I would see firefox and thunderbird
differing on the flag "mozcalendar".  It seemed like something I would
like, however, so I tried putting the flag into /etc/portage/package.keywords:

mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird mozcalendar
www-client/mozilla-firefox mozcalendar

but the subsequent emerge shows that this does not avoid the situation: notice
that TB has +moscalendar, but FB has -mozcalendar.

[ebuild   R   ] mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.8  -debug +gnome* +ipv6 +ldap +mozcalendar -moznoxft +truetype -xinerama -xprint 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.8  -debug +gnome* +ipv6 +java -mozcalendar -mozdevelop -moznoxft -mozsvg +truetype -xinerama -xprint 0 kB

Call me confused...


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Kevin O'Gorman