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 1GeU1T-0006hX-DG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:05:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9UA3Qu1021485; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:03:26 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9U9xlsh008856 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:59:48 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7C883471 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:07:04 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id mPd7-oOeFve9 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:06:58 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B6183476 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:06:58 +0200 (SAST) Received: from jimmynote.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.87]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:01:36 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] X USE flag Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:01:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 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 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610301201.10141.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Oct 2006 10:01:36.0453 (UTC) FILETIME=[62D35F50:01C6FC0A] X-Archives-Salt: c0ded589-1ff1-4b10-92c4-e845a66b1680 X-Archives-Hash: b354973616bd2707139c1d258bd56fdc 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list