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 1Gec89-0008IJ-Kp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:45:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9UIf4mm005457; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:41:04 GMT Received: from shuttle.zlin.dk (port78.ds1-abs.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.227.17]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9UIcfYG009216 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:38:41 GMT Received: from BA.zlin.dk (unknown [10.0.0.3]) by shuttle.zlin.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29B8A30037 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:38:40 +0100 (CET) From: Bo =?iso-8859-1?q?=D8rsted_Andresen?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:38:32 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200610301201.10141.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <200610301302.16699.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> <200610301504.11143.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> In-Reply-To: <200610301504.11143.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart52845370.m3AVYIOPEP"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200610301938.39414.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Archives-Salt: ca602184-aa8f-4df6-b774-0f930909fc51 X-Archives-Hash: 16110cc94d47272568877f184de43ee2 --nextPart52845370.m3AVYIOPEP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 =2D-=20 Bo Andresen --nextPart52845370.m3AVYIOPEP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQBFRkav8/kKEzmwNNoRAtuUAJiqYdep3TgkbqoZ8/nOvSo/4WlLAJ9tQ9+1 QIujwwfvs8rTv34+Wxfglw== =XAzE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart52845370.m3AVYIOPEP-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list