Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.1 weirdness

[Rumen Yotov <rumen@qrypto.org>]

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Sergio Polini wrote:
> Mick:
>> As I understand it (I'm sure this has been covered in GWN, forums,
>> etc.) USE flags which had been set  automatically by certain
>> packages are no longer valid universally.  Therefore, either add
>> those USE flags missing (e.g. ldap & mozilla for OOo) in your
>> /etc/make.conf, or if you only want them for a particular package
>> add them in /etc/portage/package.use.
> 
> I'm sure (I'ld like to be sure) that this change is documented 
> somewhere, but I can't find where.
> I need documentation because I'm an advanced user of some packages 
> (f.i., tetex), but a naive user of other ones (f.i., xine). So I 
> can't understand why and how I should re-emerge xine because of:
> 
> [ebuild   R   ] media-video/xine-ui-0.99.4-r5  USE="X ncurses nls 
> readline -aalib -curl* -libcaca -lirc -vdr -xinerama" 0 kB
> 
> Any hints?
> 
> Thanks
> Sergio
Hi,
This is because of a new USE-flag "-curl*" which previously was ON.
Means you'll have to reemerge "xine-ui" or enable 'curl' for xine-ui in
package.use.
HTH.Rumen

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