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 1Ro57k-0003UZ-PQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:26:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8DC99E094F; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:26:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D1F0E091F for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:25:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghbg19 with SMTP id g19so74492ghb.40 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:25:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=190BZtAw9P3PCPpbpInJgjr6PyGPE5sjZkDfWtfvfro=; b=CTGD/LUMQsoDet7eIdrbksQY8j0GA1QLnGrV0BezK572vssaXutwwZsCc9Ofj614kt EEDMZb6wvau15rxBdmCbwZejek5ymK1Fj6HzRtvuXGOcxT8PmYbGkaSFDr2yi1xqJBLU cWId76tp9hGY6Xr2I1kSbGQxDMssDNUkjeQIM= Received: by 10.236.131.12 with SMTP id l12mr41426631yhi.111.1327029939740; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:25:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-147-47.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.147.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 9sm4245140ans.15.2012.01.19.19.25.36 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:25:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F18DEAB.4070003@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:25:31 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20120118 Firefox/9.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.6.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage option "--changed-use" not working? References: <4F1898FF.1070106@gmail.com> <4F18AFBE.4000403@gmail.com> <4F18C57A.1020701@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 698c717d-8197-420f-9fdb-f856baa9a98d X-Archives-Hash: c564ce6526e2d52ccc66c150b7bdc4b1 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On 19 January 2012 17:38, Dale wrote: >> Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >>> On 19 January 2012 16:05, Dale wrote: >>>> Well, the USE flag got changed. Isn't that what -N is supposed to do? >>> >>> -N == --newuse not --changed-use :-) >>> >>> It's exactly for this reason that I use --changed-use and not >>> --newuse. See the man page for the details. >>> >>> >> >> >> Well, sort of seems like about the same. The dev changed the USE flag, >> it is changed, portage sees it was changed, portage wants to recompile >> it with the new/changed flags. >> >> I'm not exactly clear on the difference between newuse and changed-use. >> If you enable a USE flag, it is changed. If you disable a USE flag, it >> is changed. If a new flag comes along and it is different than the last >> install, then it can be either a new flag or a changed flag. It should >> recompile either way. > > The point here is that a USE flag was removed but it wasn't enabled > anyway. So no recompile necessary. Which is what --changed-use is > supposed to be for (as I understand the man page). > >> Maybe there is some subtle difference somewhere that I am missing. > > Which is why I included what it says in the man page and then referred > you to said man page... ;-) > > Well, when I did mine, it showed up as a change. It was in yellow. Maybe your system was different or something. Most man pages are Greek. My Greek is not real good. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"