From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ro4vU-0001mF-24 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:14:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5680CE0943; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:13:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB366E06DF for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:12:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenr8 with SMTP id r8so71852yen.40 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:12:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=E0KculYDWHLoOtK2E8Vz910ABtne1bJXksoJ2Q99qh0=; b=PBjfWwzA82F8WuEO+O76fHKiYmViCk8ZJl49gLBlS/nxc754HkuOKjjEWE1O5qn+Vj 2Y6MVa3SpIcTJEEpycVZD6lIohFXei0AV9aKLAwLShbZil8GVOkasu2KQ3QUR4i4mpMl ipqEGTERk6k3PItKtiOkZfjME2tWrvXkZc8NA= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.165.1 with SMTP id d1mr42027671yhl.54.1327029174365; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:12:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.50.44 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:12:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F18C57A.1020701@gmail.com> References: <4F1898FF.1070106@gmail.com> <4F18AFBE.4000403@gmail.com> <4F18C57A.1020701@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:12:54 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage option "--changed-use" not working? From: Hilco Wijbenga To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: ea860965-0571-447b-bcb5-a2c054f9975e X-Archives-Hash: 39ee653bff4055e7a98dcfc12b9b2286 On 19 January 2012 17:38, Dale wrote: > Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >> On 19 January 2012 16:05, Dale wrote: >>> Well, the USE flag got changed. =C2=A0Isn't that what -N is supposed to= do? >> >> -N =3D=3D --newuse not --changed-use :-) >> >> It's exactly for this reason that I use --changed-use and not >> --newuse. See the man page for the details. >> >> > > > Well, sort of seems like about the same. =C2=A0The dev changed the USE fl= ag, > it is changed, portage sees it was changed, portage wants to recompile > it with the new/changed flags. > > I'm not exactly clear on the difference between newuse and changed-use. > =C2=A0If you enable a USE flag, it is changed. =C2=A0If you disable a USE= flag, it > is changed. =C2=A0If a new flag comes along and it is different than the = last > install, then it can be either a new flag or a changed flag. =C2=A0It sho= uld > recompile either way. The point here is that a USE flag was removed but it wasn't enabled anyway. So no recompile necessary. Which is what --changed-use is supposed to be for (as I understand the man page). > Maybe there is some subtle difference somewhere that I am missing. Which is why I included what it says in the man page and then referred you to said man page... ;-)