[gentoo-user] X USE flag

[Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>]

Hi,

Looks like the tree was busy over the weekend :-). My regular sync and 
emerge world this morning results in just about every x11 package 
wanting to be rebuilt. Lots of stuff like this:

[ebuild   R   ]  x11-libs/xtrans-1.0.2  USE="X%* -debug" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ]   x11-apps/mkfontdir-1.0.2  USE="X%* -debug" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ]    x11-apps/mkfontscale-1.0.2  USE="X%* -debug" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ]     x11-libs/libfontenc-1.0.3  USE="X%* -debug" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ]      x11-proto/xproto-7.0.8  USE="X%* -debug" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ]       x11-misc/util-macros-1.1.1  USE="X%* -debug" 0 kB

What's up with this? I've always had X in my USE, the ebuilds haven't 
changed, a few that I checked inherit only x-modular which doesn't seem 
to affect it either. And I'm not relishing the many hours of compiling 
this is going to entail. So two questions:

1. What's causing these packages to have an X use flag at all?
2. Why use such a flag at all? These are X11 packages, seems kinda 
pointless to compile such a thing without X11 support...

alan
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