[gentoo-user] USE flag question

[gentoo-user] USE flag question

[»Q«]

A few days ago, I used eselect to switch profiles, from
default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop to default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop.  

A lot of USE flags were removed from my make.conf, including
the cpu-optimizations such as sse and mmx.  After re-compiling a few
things and getting warnings from the ebuilds that video and audio 
playback would be choppy without those flags, I put them back into my
flags in make.conf.  If I use ufed to manage the flags, as I'm used to
doing, it takes them back out when I save changes.

It seems strange to me that the profile switch should affect these
flags.  I think I'm overlooking/misunderstanding something, but I'm
not sure what to ask.  Any enlightenment (including links to
enlightenment) would be appreciated.

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Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag question

[Sebastian Günther]

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* »Q« (boxcars@gmx.net) [14.07.08 01:16]:
> A few days ago, I used eselect to switch profiles, from
> default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop to default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop.  
> 

As I did...

> A lot of USE flags were removed from my make.conf, including
> the cpu-optimizations such as sse and mmx.  After re-compiling a few
> things and getting warnings from the ebuilds that video and audio 
> playback would be choppy without those flags, I put them back into my
> flags in make.conf.  If I use ufed to manage the flags, as I'm used to
> doing, it takes them back out when I save changes.
> 

ufed is the bad guy, I think the stable version is not able to handle 
the new profile layout correctly.

> It seems strange to me that the profile switch should affect these
> flags.  I think I'm overlooking/misunderstanding something, but I'm
> not sure what to ask.  Any enlightenment (including links to
> enlightenment) would be appreciated.
> 

Use ufed-0.40-r10 from ~ and your use flags are not getting removed.

HTH
Sebastian

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[gentoo-user] Re: USE flag question [solved]

[»Q«]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:29:31 +0200
Sebastian Günther <samson@guenther-roetgen.de> wrote:

> * »Q« (boxcars@gmx.net) [14.07.08 01:16]:
> > A few days ago, I used eselect to switch profiles, from
> > default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop to
> > default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop.  
> > 
> 
> As I did...
> 
> > A lot of USE flags were removed from my make.conf, including
> > the cpu-optimizations such as sse and mmx.  After re-compiling a few
> > things and getting warnings from the ebuilds that video and audio 
> > playback would be choppy without those flags, I put them back into
> > my flags in make.conf.  If I use ufed to manage the flags, as I'm
> > used to doing, it takes them back out when I save changes.
> > 
> 
> ufed is the bad guy, I think the stable version is not able to handle 
> the new profile layout correctly.

> Use ufed-0.40-r10 from ~ and your use flags are not getting removed.

Thanks very much!  I'd thought the flags were removed /before/ I used
ufed, but I guess I was mistaken.  0.40-r10 works fine -- I should
have looked at the ufed Changelog before posting.  :)

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