On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 06:45:16 -0400, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:

> > The only thing you gain is being able to run 32-bit applications
> > against those libraries, even if you don't have any need to.  The only
> > thing you lose is a bunch of inodes, and maybe some compile time.  
> 
> Well, that clarifies things a bit -- what is strange is that I had to do
> about 70 packages beffore portage would let the preserved-rebuild go
> through, for future reference is there an automatic way to add all the
> use flags, even the packages which already have other use flags?

The --autounmask option for emerge does that (you still have to confirm
the changes with etc-update). This is enabled by default, so it appears
you have disabled it in make.conf if you are not already seeing the offer
to add the packages.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity.