Albert Hopkins writes: >> ,---- >> | % emerge --info libxcb >> | Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64) > [blah] >> Any ideas why PORTAGE_COMPRESS_* aren't set on my box. > Because you haven't set them. Therefore they take the defaults. BTW, > 'emerge --info' doesn't print out every portage variable, only the > "interesting" ones (e.g. ones useful for submitting bug reports). >> BtW, how do I see >> what PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES is set to. > # cat /etc/make.conf /etc/make.globals /etc/make.profile/make.defaults \ > |grep -m 1 ^PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES Yes, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES is set to that default. Thanks for mentioning this. Anyways, re-emerging libxcb fixes the issue for me. Maybe it is some bug in old portage version (which I used when I emerged libxcb), as I recently upgraded to 2.2_rc12 to have KDE 4.1.2. Thanks Ashish Shukla -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- % dig +short cname cdac.in @::1 ms.gov.in