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 1GeZzJ-0000E0-38 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:27:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9UGNPmt029760; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:23:25 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 k9UGL8vg005278 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:21:09 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id A85898345E for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:28:25 +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 cU-WVHkCsMbL for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:28:21 +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 F0EED83458 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:28:20 +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 18:22:59 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:22:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200610301201.10141.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <200610301504.11143.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> In-Reply-To: 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610301822.33999.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Oct 2006 16:22:59.0124 (UTC) FILETIME=[A9F5DF40:01C6FC3F] X-Archives-Salt: e1c26765-3b88-41a0-9de1-13f3c42e9284 X-Archives-Hash: 683fb05d11febc77c825734150121e42 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list