From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QZKA3-0003W4-ET for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:55:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86C881C02E; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:54:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3533E1C02E for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:54:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb28 with SMTP id 28so567858wyb.40 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:54:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type; bh=RaTgQH082CSiP308DbzRmrZ6B8gUz0Fl7BIma6x1rDg=; b=Et6y386HfNpCLRToobn4VyoVAvh6XRsYOxXQ+i7TtGSxeEILk/myWUrbj0e/SxWLUa 1IvmFs0TYYtshL7z7SYPY7CpgpkNzECo4mFA7/efA8dDpWBy2PnuAmAPzuhOI0z2erpo NoFwZgtIO53bUhrUCyOhYhUwPEqP3xIulUIj8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; b=n10MsRpoANB0tQDfWRdPap/mBZZofWUdFoKX1Ym83fxWbruRX09Se5SmFPpNuEvskD u54dvM2YNvgjIPCV9mfe+nsn8e8BOzvls3E9acCIHUemB0qwOfO/6jT1xhhn+I7jSVXz HL/fGpz/bF2DygmGc7D/yGhU4aPmIr8gFl9gU= Received: by 10.216.58.138 with SMTP id q10mr1807309wec.95.1308736464417; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:54:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-183-215.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.183.215]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o75sm199134weq.16.2011.06.22.02.54.21 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:54:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Neil Bothwick Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE? Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:53:19 +0200 Message-ID: <2722186.Lc5eY5q7TY@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.6.0 (Linux/2.6.38-ck-r1; KDE/4.6.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20110622104754.6a51d1eb@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <2869451.8C6Z2vDv6d@nazgul> <20110622104754.6a51d1eb@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 81f61337825059118bf34e8ef0f0b474 On Wednesday 22 June 2011 10:47:54 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:18:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: > > #required by www-client/dillo-2.2, required by > > mail-client/claws- > > mail-3.7.9-r1[dillo], required by claws-mail (argument) > > > > >=x11-libs/fltk-2.0_pre6970-r1 -cairo > > > > Any reason why portage is telling me to set a USE that is > > already > > there per portage's own output? > > As Daniel said, this is what portage needs, it's been that way since > the autounmask stuff was introduced. In other words, we must now all end up with giganticly bloated package.use files to satisfy every "built with use" requirement system-wide? What's wrong with looking at the defaults and saying "Gee, you know what, the implicit rules on the box are going to do the right thing anyway, so let's proceed and build the stuff?" > Or you could emerge Claws with > -dillo and use the fancy plugin for HTML rendering. I stopped using > the dillo renderer years ago. Well, that's an option. But I fear this behaviour is going to rear it's head many more times with other ebuilds. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com