Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?

[wraeth <wraeth@wraeth.id.au>]

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On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 03:19:19PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 09/07/15 14:48, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:38:43 +0200, Stephan Müller wrote:
> >
> >> As a wild guess into the blue, it could be related to readline. As I
> >> see gentoo's bash uses the standalone readline from coreutils, while
> >> the original bash source maintains an own trimmed version of readline..
> >> just a thought
> >
> > In that case, re-emerging Bash with USE="-readline" should get rid of the
> > problem.
> 
> Doesn't seem possible. That USE flag seems to get ignored by portage:
> 
>    emerge --info bash
>    [...]
>    app-shells/bash-4.3_p39::gentoo was built with the following:
>    USE="net (policykit) (readline) -afs -bashlogger -examples
>    -mem-scramble -nls -plugins -vanilla" ABI_X86="64"
> 
> So "readline" is enabled. But:
> 
>    echo "app-shells/bash -readline" >> /etc/portage/package.use
>    emerge -uDN --with-bdeps=y @world
>    [...]
>    Nothing to merge; quitting.
> 
> That USE flag doesn't do anything.
> 
> 

Use the command `emerge -uav --changed-use app-shells/bash` - you need
to identify that it's a changed use flag, otherwise it ignores because
there are no new versions.

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