Re: [gentoo-user] serious problems trying to go to new abi_x86_32 support

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 06:45:16 -0400, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> 
> > > The only thing you gain is being able to run 32-bit applications
> > > against those libraries, even if you don't have any need to.  The only
> > > thing you lose is a bunch of inodes, and maybe some compile time.  
> > 
> > Well, that clarifies things a bit -- what is strange is that I had to do
> > about 70 packages beffore portage would let the preserved-rebuild go
> > through, for future reference is there an automatic way to add all the
> > use flags, even the packages which already have other use flags?
> 
> The --autounmask option for emerge does that (you still have to confirm
> the changes with etc-update). This is enabled by default, so it appears
> you have disabled it in make.conf if you are not already seeing the offer
> to add the packages.

Yep, I disabled it -- I didn't know autounmask included use flags as
well -- thanks for  that.

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