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
>
> --
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
>
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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