On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 03:51:47PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan Mckinnon squawked: > On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 13:21 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: > > Following a portage update/sync and running 'emerge -auDvN world', > > packages sometimes show with 'R' but without any yellow or % USE flags > > shown. I assume that this is because a USE flag has been removed from > > either the ebuild or an eclass used by the ebuild. If this is correct, > > it would be nice if it was to show which USE flag(s) are no longer > > used. > > Now there's an idea, why didn't I think of that? Submit it as a feature > request, I'll give you a "me too!" vote
That would be a neat idea. But I don't think that's what the OP described. Packages shown with R implies it is being re-compiled. yellow or % USE flags are new ones. If you have already installed the package once, the USE flags cannot be new ;) I would think that if IUSE changed in an ebuild, that would warrant a version bump, but I don't know the dev's policy on that. Most likely those packages are being re-merged because of a changed USE flag on your configuration: does it have something green or followed by *? That means a USE flag that changed since the last install. HTH, W -- "Fortunately, this is where we stop, for the equations of motion are 2nd order. If it were 5th order you'd all probably switch to biology." ~DeathMech, S. Sondhi. P-town PHY 205 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1 day, 20:03 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
