[gentoo-user] Why have a use-flag that can not be disabled?

2011-06-28 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Hello, atm I play with some use-flags and found that amarok has the flag player that can not be disabled. #required by amarok (argument) =media-sound/amarok-2.4.1 player If this flag is required at all costs, why make a flag at all? What good is a switch that can not be toggled? Greetings

Re: [gentoo-user] Why have a use-flag that can not be disabled?

2011-06-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 28 June 2011 14:52:22 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly: Hello, atm I play with some use-flags and found that amarok has the flag player that can not be disabled. #required by amarok (argument) =media-sound/amarok-2.4.1 player If this flag is required at all costs, why make

Re: [gentoo-user] Why have a use-flag that can not be disabled?

2011-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:52:22 +0200, Sebastian Beßler wrote: atm I play with some use-flags and found that amarok has the flag player that can not be disabled. #required by amarok (argument) =media-sound/amarok-2.4.1 player If this flag is required at all costs, why make a flag at all?

Re: [gentoo-user] Why have a use-flag that can not be disabled?

2011-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Hello, atm I play with some use-flags and found that amarok has the flag player that can not be disabled. #required by amarok (argument) =media-sound/amarok-2.4.1 player If this flag is required at all

Re: [gentoo-user] Why have a use-flag that can not be disabled?

2011-06-28 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 28.06.2011 16:01, schrieb Neil Bothwick: As usual, the answer comes from reading the ebuild. You must have at least one of player or utils in USE. -player works fine, as long as you don't also have -utils. Thanks all of you, that really helped. The autounmask output looked like there was

Re: [gentoo-user] Why have a use-flag that can not be disabled?

2011-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:32:38 +0200, Sebastian Beßler wrote: The autounmask output looked like there was only that one option so I was puzzled. It would have been better if it had printed both options (player and/or utils) in this case. It seems that autounmask suggests the first option that