On Monday 30 October 2006 14:04, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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

I'd wait hold off on --newuse for a day or two if I were you...

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/43805

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Bo Andresen