On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wedn"esday 15 October 2008 08:20:40 momesso.andrea@gmail.com wrote:"
> Yesterday I emerged app-office/openoffice-3.0.0, and as usual it took a lot
> of time.
>
> This morning, after sync, portage wants to reemerge the same package, and
> the same version, due to a new (and unused by me) useflag which is
> "-templates%".
>
> Of course the result would be a completely identical build, as long as I'm
> not using that useflag, so I want to avoid it.
>
> At the same time I don't want to see anymore openoffice in the list of
> upgradable packages in my daily "emerge -uDNp world".
>
> Can someone help?

Let the thing build overnight. Tomorrow morning it will accede to your wishes
and start to shut up.

"emerge --reinstall changed-use" also looks worth investigating

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I cheated :P

I manually edited /var/db/pkg/app-office/openoffice-3.0.0/IUSE adding "templates", and now it does not ask me for reinstall anymore. 

That saved me a lot of time, energy and disk consumption :)


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