On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:59:12 -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: >> On Wednesday 14 June 2006 14:42, Alec Warner wrote: >> >>>* autouse (use.defaults) has been deprecated by specifying USE_ORDER in >>>make.defaults. Users may still turn this back on by specifying >>>USE_ORDER="env:pkg:conf:auto:defaults" in make.conf. Interested in >>>figuring out what use flags were turned off? Check out >>>/usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults and other use.defaults files >>>that correspond to your profile. >> >> >> I'm sorry, but that doesn't make a lot of sense. use.defaults hasn't >> been deprecated. The January GWN [1] specified this much more clearly. >> Also checking out the use.defaults files won't tell you what was turned >> off unless you have an old version to diff it against. 'emerge -uvpDN >> world' will, however. > > No, we didn't change the use.defaults files at all, they are the same and > will stay the same for quite some time. However we no longer add those > use flags to the USE stack, ergo, look in use.defaults to see what could > be affecting you. I think people already know to use newuse to see use > flag changes, but this tells them why there are changes. >
The use.default file in default-linux is now empty. The one in base gives you nothing to compare it against. Was there another file you meant? -- Peter -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
