Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag

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

On Monday 30 October 2006 15:21, Sascha Lucas wrote:
> > 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
>
> from portage pkg_postinst:
> ----------
> In portage-2.1.1, emerge --newuse is now sensitive to changes in
> IUSE. Immediately after upgrade from 2.1, users may notice a
> significantly larger number of packages pulled in by --newuse, but
> that behavior is normal. For additional information regarding this
> change, please see bugs #116955, #144333, #144661, and #146060.
> ----------
>
> I recommend to burdening @ #116955, or helping @ #144333 :-)

I read all those bugs and comments, especially this one:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144333#c6

and it seems that we have a trade-off here - put up with the occasional 
redundant remerge, or put up with the mostly constant nuisance of yet 
another option to emerge and the decision process that goes with it - 
to use or not to use this new option.

On balance, maybe the former is the route of least pain

alan
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