Re: [gentoo-user] Portage option "--changed-use" not working?

[Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com>]

On 19 January 2012 14:28, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In "man emerge" I read:
>>
>> --changed-use
>>   Tells  emerge  to  include  installed packages where USE flags have
>> changed since installation. This option also implies the --selective
>> option. Unlike --newuse, the --changed-use option does not trigger
>> reinstallation when flags that the user has not enabled are added or
>> removed.
>>
>> So I always include "--changed-use" when upgrading @world. But with
>> the removal of kdeenablefinal I now get 150 reinstalls with
>> changed-use. This seems to be contradicting the man page? Or am I
>> misunderstanding things? Or did I misconfigure something? To be clear,
>> I have never enabled kdeenablefinal.
>>
>> The full command I usually run is
>>
>> emerge --verbose --deep --with-bdeps=y --complete-graph --update
>> --changed-use --keep-going world
>>
>> should that be relevant.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Hilco
>>
>>
>
>
> Just to be clear, it was a dev that changed the kdeenablefinal flag.  It
> was sort of discussed on -dev.  I think the dev that did it doesn't use
> -N so it doesn't affect him and I guess he thinks it won't affect others
> either.

I know and I don't mind the kdeenablefinal flag being removed. That
makes perfect sense.

It's just that --changed-use ought to have prevented the 150
unnecessary reinstalls. Or at least, I think it should have. :-)