Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag

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

On Monday 30 October 2006 14:02, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > 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...
>
> The x-modular.eclass now inherits the font.eclass ...
>
> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/eclass/x-modular.ecla
>ss?r1=1.77&r2=1.78
> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/eclass/font.eclass?re
>v=1.21&view=markup

Ok, that's explains what's happening.

But now I have to recompile something on the order of 60 - 70 packages 
with a new USE flag which is apparently not used anywhere (and is 
simply an artifact of an inherit) (I checked some of the ebuilds, not 
all, and none so far use that flag directly). I'll even predict money 
that the new binaries are identical to the old ones.

Forgive my saying this, but that is a stupendous waste of my cpu cycles 
and time. A better solution must exist - if this moves to arch 
unchanged the gentoo user base will go ballistic

alan

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