[gentoo-dev] Stricter --newuse settings
I know that newuse is stricter now. but do my packages really have to want to rebuild because a flag was hard masked. e.g. arts when I had -arts in my make.conf already? seems like it's a little too strict. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Stricter --newuse settings
Caleb Cushing wrote: I know that newuse is stricter now. but do my packages really have to want to rebuild because a flag was hard masked. e.g. arts when I had -arts in my make.conf already? seems like it's a little too strict. You are free to file a bug at bugs.gentoo.org. If a flag goes from 'off' to 'masked on your arch' then the flag shouldn't show up in newuse (IMHO). However I haven't looked at the code that manages it in some time so I am unsure if this is the case. In the end before filing the bug make sure you have can explain exactly which use case you are referring to. Thanks, Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Stricter --newuse settings
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 18:40, Caleb Cushing wrote: I know that newuse is stricter now. but do my packages really have to want to rebuild because a flag was hard masked. e.g. arts when I had -arts in my make.conf already? seems like it's a little too strict. This is not because of a use.mask over a flag, I'm afraid. I've removed some arts useflags in the past days, a they are currently showing everywhere there's a kde eclass uasage, this is suboptimal as most of the times arts is not actually needed there. When a flag is removed from a package it might be the same as having it disabled or enabled, it depends, so --newuse does its job by rebuilding the package. Indeed even when a package _requires_ arts, I remove the useflag and force arts on. -- Diego Flameeyes Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Sound, ALSA, PAM, KDE, CJK, Ruby ... pgpqus4PL7qOT.pgp Description: PGP signature
