From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G3fIx-0005TU-Gb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:39:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6KKbYeh013294; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:37:34 GMT Received: from gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de [134.76.163.126]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6KKWUx1010014 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:32:30 GMT Received: by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix, from userid 8) id CEB16ED1B7; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:04:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from butch (dslc-082-082-185-202.pools.arcor-ip.net [82.82.185.202]) by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07270ED198 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:04:35 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:10:33 +0200 From: Hans-Werner Hilse To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11, $VIDEO_CARDS & binary packages Message-Id: <20060720221033.39440aba.hilse@web.de> In-Reply-To: <342e1090607201140k2431da80ie1bf18de28ff45e3@mail.gmail.com> References: <200607190651.03398.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at> <200607200744.21927.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at> <44BFA74D.7050602@gmail.com> <200607202025.31047.alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at> <342e1090607201140k2431da80ie1bf18de28ff45e3@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.5 (GTK+ 2.8.19; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Details: No, hits=2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,RCVD_IN_DSBL, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de X-Archives-Salt: 950b9202-5228-467a-aaa7-0b0e9353041f X-Archives-Hash: f23a065c5b7578123518c8d15a9af9b9 Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:40:39 -0300 "Daniel da Veiga" wrote: > Maybe I'm wrong, but binary packages are BINARY (-k), so, you can't > change their USE, because they're already compiled, they'll use the > flags that were used by the time the package was created. If you > install it creating binaries (FEATURES="buildpkg" emerge xorg-x1) now > with another USE or emerge it and create the binaries after it > (quickpkg), then you may get what you want when you try and reinstall > it. > > Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, I'm using logic here, not > exactly empiric knowledge ;) But it's right :-). Even if xorg-x11 may be a "meta" package, it's a package, after all. And thus it's set of USE flags (and those additional configuration vars that are listed in verbose output of emerge) was *fixed* when the binary was created. That makes perfectly sense -- if you want it to get rebuild, don't use -k. And it's a meta package, it does download nothing at all. So having a binary of it doesn't make much sense if there's a very heterogenous number of clients that make use of the binaries. For restoring the machine that built the binaries, however, it makes perfectly sense (as long as hardware doesn't change). -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list