From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C5BBF1396D0 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2017 10:38:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9884DE0DE9; Sun, 13 Aug 2017 10:38:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4A517E0BA0 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2017 10:38:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-98-218-46-55.hsd1.md.comcast.net [98.218.46.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mjo) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E8B47341844 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2017 10:38:29 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Revisions for USE flag changes To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <53c9d820-5852-730a-3728-793855c98a1a@gentoo.org> <6912b3d6-4d66-ef99-223c-5892549b571e@gentoo.org> <4bf31717-7dbe-78ec-30e1-78f12f63174e@gentoo.org> <9a4c73d7-34b7-d84e-b9f6-ff5abcc6ec31@gentoo.org> <1502600504.32531.32.camel@gentoo.org> From: Michael Orlitzky Message-ID: Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 06:38:27 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1502600504.32531.32.camel@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d5b3303f-1c2a-412a-a630-2a9e5bf40c4f X-Archives-Hash: 065f55b9f77d22a6e34985c8cdf317b7 On 08/13/2017 01:01 AM, Hans de Graaff wrote: > On Sat, 2017-08-12 at 05:58 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> >> I simply overlooked the global USE change in make.conf because IMO >> it's a nonsense operation. > > This also happens routinely as new python and ruby versions are marked > stable, not via make.conf, but by removing their use.stable.mask. > If --newuse is required for that, it shouldn't be. Using a feature of my package manager (--newuse) to facilitate a change to a variable on my machine (USE) is one thing, but changes to ::gentoo are another.