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 1QZIh0-00037E-Je for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:21:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B02AF1C01D; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:19:10 +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 6744A1C0FD for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:19:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb28 with SMTP id 28so498711wyb.40 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:19:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=IfN/eqyWOZNY7S4diT5xLSoJ9RyJiIM/GTR2rA+hcpA=; b=hlQEJ4TfNGMxRgIqPVtQVdQsf28oxaeUeKAI1NaqmyAuECFPJXeUyH1RxXW2Qwrdhq HxOO05Dgr1FwCIor+SQWMARB4AeYXyySR5iAljUyWdsqZ1IAmo/yUPL7Fd0+BwybMiZ2 LhRkhugu66nICC5HEFUjBr5fYbX3pSbs+iqio= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type; b=li+5YskIspKohuTgXVy+j1K7lhAMQmP76pTA8CI6uKYTrAATu4vQ7z631O/OedvU9C V8si6SzHeFvWXE29vMnTxv1LfG2pad4/D7iZcP75lMduff9YaUTmmMdTM9qGjsxc0FWd ozId9T5PGNQks8hYy5lIeDlgLOZMHgH2ci1V0= Received: by 10.227.182.79 with SMTP id cb15mr416633wbb.49.1308730749551; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:19:09 -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 fm6sm242929wbb.10.2011.06.22.01.19.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:19:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE? Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:18:05 +0200 Message-ID: <2869451.8C6Z2vDv6d@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.6.0 (Linux/2.6.38-ck-r1; KDE/4.6.4; x86_64; ; ) 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: 02489891ff0a2ff043ce78e1e27a436b # emerge -av claws-mail These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] net-libs/libetpan-1.0 USE="berkdb gnutls sasl ssl - debug -ipv6 -liblockfile" 1,631 kB [ebuild N ] x11-libs/fltk-2.0_pre6970-r1 USE="jpeg opengl png xft xinerama zlib -cairo -debug -doc" 2,470 kB [ebuild N ] www-client/dillo-2.2 USE="gif jpeg png ssl -doc - ipv6" 616 kB [ebuild N ] mail-client/claws-mail-3.7.9-r1 USE="crypt dbus dillo gnutls imap ldap session spell ssl startup-notification - bogofilter -doc -ipv6 -nntp -pda -smime -spamassassin -xface" 6,921 kB Total: 4 packages (4 new), Size of downloads: 11,637 kB 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? It will build fltk with USE=-cairo, so why the need to tell me to set it explicitly? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com