From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (unknown [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 117401381FA for ; Fri, 16 May 2014 10:36:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F286AE0A41; Fri, 16 May 2014 10:36:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EA6F0E09BA for ; Fri, 16 May 2014 10:36:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.181.53.45] (unknown [85.76.64.65]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ssuominen) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 86F46340034 for ; Fri, 16 May 2014 10:36:37 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5375E9ED.4040200@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:35:25 +0300 From: Samuli Suominen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 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] The writing on the wall ... sys-apps/util-linux References: <201405160834.35564.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201405160834.35564.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a3a9e153-1b92-4602-9c89-1d359929e4b9 X-Archives-Hash: 96d8937ac8f165847380c5811e1ddbee On 16/05/14 10:34, Mick wrote: > I got this message after an update: > > * Messages for package sys-apps/util-linux-2.24.1-r2: > > * The mesg/wall/write tools have been disabled due to USE=-tty-helpers. > > > I understand that wall has been moved from sys-apps/sysvinit to sys-apps/util- > linux, but I am not sure why USE=-tty-helpers is disabled as a default. I > couldn't find anything mentioning this in gentoo-dev, but this could just be > my poor searching skills. Does anyone know? > Because upstream util-linux disables tty-helpers by default regarding it's ./configure --help, as they are not deemed important commands - Samuli