From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GfKUO-0007jQ-Ta for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:07:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kA1I2tkH024327; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 18:02:55 GMT Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.207]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA1HvUwV023519 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:57:30 GMT Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 9so2625585nzo for ; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:57:30 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=K9Z/sV/9207ye3UYTcD4Z2LmT/OVe0cTSevbtfmUkj/P8Gai0GJoPOj8trXL3OQUFRfFguPWJC/usVDwGiwIwSD7iBa8K2qakYE2NzqOlIoV7UOFWu5E/ya/zOXKIafqzmLIYcWtqH8Hlf2ztP8UPgUwkyaPN+rjV19wj5iXWdQ= Received: by 10.64.193.8 with SMTP id q8mr9406490qbf; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:57:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.218.13 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 09:57:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <642958cc0611010957p5f662326je9088e2c25050d49@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:57:27 -0500 From: "Mark Shields" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag In-Reply-To: <20061031083031.0cdf1499@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_25032_32046612.1162403847638" References: <200610301201.10141.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <454648E3.6010402@rootsr.com> <200610302041.33785.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> <200610310913.17997.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <20061031083031.0cdf1499@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 8e1238f4-4e91-4aaf-8123-633d857a7968 X-Archives-Hash: 3f653ee042581eef8975e21dd31967da ------=_Part_25032_32046612.1162403847638 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 10/31/06, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:13:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I let the emerge run anyway last night, took about 2 hours for 143 > > packages, lots of them just fonts which install quickly. So now I guess > > It'll have to be done again in a day or three. > > If you add X to /var/db/pkg/category/package-version/IUSE for each of > the affected packages, portage won't try to emerge them again. > > It's a kludge, but it works if portage was only going to build the same > files again. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Help! I've fallen and I can't get down! - James Brown > > > A re-emerge today brought back those same packages with the X flag profile masked. Hmm... -- - Mark Shields ------=_Part_25032_32046612.1162403847638 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 10/31/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:13:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> I let the emerge run anyway last night, took about 2 hours for 143
> packages, lots of them just fonts which install quickly. So now I guess
> It'll have to be done again in a day or three.

If you add X to /var/db/pkg/category/package-version/IUSE for each of
the affected packages, portage won't try to emerge them again.

It's a kludge, but it works if portage was only going to build the same
files again.


--
Neil Bothwick

Help! I've fallen and I can't get down! - James Brown



A re-emerge today brought back those same packages with the X flag profile masked.  Hmm...

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