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 1GeWru-0007VP-TL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:07:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9UD4rmo001683; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:04:53 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 k9UD2kQ1029854 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:02:46 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id E40C983451 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:10:03 +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 s7ALEtMUnNPK for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:09:59 +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 5474B8344C for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:09:59 +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 15:04:37 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:04:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200610301201.10141.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <200610301302.16699.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> In-Reply-To: <200610301302.16699.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610301504.11143.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Oct 2006 13:04:37.0546 (UTC) FILETIME=[F41130A0:01C6FC23] X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k9UD2kQ1029854 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k9UD4rnI001683 X-Archives-Salt: bcc37e89-b9de-4f17-a59a-de2a84b7b2e6 X-Archives-Hash: 061436e4a0f172520faaf45c0ee8a92b On Monday 30 October 2006 14:02, Bo =D8rsted 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=3D1.77&r2=3D1.78 > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/eclass/font.eclass?re >v=3D1.21&view=3Dmarkup Ok, that's explains what's happening. But now I have to recompile something on the order of 60 - 70 packages=20 with a new USE flag which is apparently not used anywhere (and is=20 simply an artifact of an inherit) (I checked some of the ebuilds, not=20 all, and none so far use that flag directly). I'll even predict money=20 that the new binaries are identical to the old ones. Forgive my saying this, but that is a stupendous waste of my cpu cycles=20 and time. A better solution must exist - if this moves to arch=20 unchanged the gentoo user base will go ballistic alan --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list