Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 October 2009 18:52:33 Harry Putnam wrote:
>   
>> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> writes:
>>     
>>>> Alan, what does it get you?  In fact what does `developer' buy you?
>>>>         
>>> x86/10.0 gives you a baseline for that release
>>> x86/10.0/desktop|developer|server give you a profile more suited
>>> (tweaked) for that kind of usage.
>>>       
>> [...]
>>
>> Nice.. thanks
>> I see I already have most of use flags in the desktop, and already
>> have apache and mysql too.. so looks like I'm good to go but for
>> changing the symlink.
>>     
>
> A useful side-effect showed up with profiles in the last few days. 
> Openoffice.org integration with KDE is broken - sometimes it doesn't build, 
> sometimes it doesn't run and as the devs try out new patches it actually 
> sometimes works :-)
>
>   

So this is why OOo won't compile all of a sudden.  May have to put -kde
in package.use then.  See if that helps.

Thanks Alan. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

P. S.  Should I report the failure or do they already know about this?