Re: [gentoo-user] newuse vs changed-use (and python3_6)

2018-07-18 Thread allan gottlieb
On Thu, Jul 19 2018, Roger J. H. Welsh wrote: >> emerge --pretend --newuse ... @world >> shows 15 rebuilds while --changed-use shows none. > --changed-use prevents your system from remerging packages > due to USE flag changes upstream (not made by you). > >>eselect python show >>

Re: [gentoo-user] newuse vs changed-use (and python3_6)

2018-07-18 Thread Roger J. H. Welsh
> emerge --pretend --newuse ... @world > shows 15 rebuilds while --changed-use shows none. --changed-use prevents your system from remerging packages due to USE flag changes upstream (not made by you). >eselect python show > indicates python3.4, which I realize has end of life next year.

[gentoo-user] newuse vs changed-use (and python3_6)

2018-07-18 Thread allan gottlieb
I realize just now that one of my machines uses emerge ... --newuse ... and the other uses emerge ... --changed-use ... Both run gentoo stable. I imagine this discrepancy has been there for a long while and to date has caused no particular difficulty. However, today the --changed-use