Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] /etc/make.profile/use.defaults

[Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org>]

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On Thursday 13 May 2004 01:39, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 May 2004 01:03, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:
> >>>On 12 May 2004, at 17:44, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> >>>>But they are only 'scheduled for installation' if the USE flag is
> >>>>activated. The '--emptytree' flag gets emerge in some weird 'chicken
> >>>>and egg' situation. With '--emptytree' set, emerge should assume
> >>>>nothing is installed. If nothing is installed, then tcl and tk aren't
> >>>>installed and the 'tcltk' USE flag shouldn't be auto-activated.
> >>>
> >>>true, unless of course tcl and tk are in the world file, or some other
> >>>installed package depends on both, and therefore causes the tcltk use
> >>>flag to be triggered.
> >>>but it should certainly not auto-enable the USE flag (if it isn't
> >>>enabled specifically) because the current system has it enabled.
> >>>--emptytree should assume nothing is installed
> >
> > This one, I'm undecided on. Strictly, --emptytree should assume nothing
> > is installed. In practice though, many users use it to reinstall
> > everything. If --emptytree does actually assume nothing is installed,
> > users could find themselves with blocked packages overwriting each other
> > and wonderful things like that.
> >
> > Two options I see are:
> > a) Keep current behaviour
> > b) Make --emptytree a --pretend only option and create a new --reinstall.
>
> I think it is more of a consistency bug than a function bug. I don't
> believe it causes any problems in practice, and I only stumbled across is
> because of the project I'm working on. I don't think it actually affects
> anyone.

But if the current behaviour was changed, there would be many that notice. 
Jump into #gentoo or post on gentoo-user@g.o and ask how to reinstall 
everything. You'll get many answers of emerge -e world and a few saying that 
it's not enough and that you'll have to emerge $(qpkg -I).

Regards,
Jason Stubbs
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