On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote:
> Mark Knecht writes:
>
>> Sort of strange. One of my machines just showed up wanting to rebuild
>> about 25 packages due to a USE flag change? All the packages were
>> showing -perl and/or -python. Seemed like a strange change at this
>> point in the life of a desktop PC so I added both flags to make.conf
>> and the machine is once again content to update just a couple of
>> packages.
>>
>> I don't recall seeing any discussion about this.Was there??
>
> There was a message on the gentoo-announce list on Sept. 30th:
>
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> Hello,
>
> In a few days, USE={python,perl} will be removed from the profile
> defaults. There has been sufficient levels of testing so the impact to
> users will be small besides a potentially large number of rebuilds
> which should not be a cause for alarm. The end result will be
> beneficial for a vast majority of people.
>
> See further reading:
> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/msg_ae405bb743eeda9dc66773998ee50759.xml
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy
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>
> It has also been discussed a little here, at least in the 'tabbed
> x11-terms/rxvt-unicode' thread. But that only deals with some
> implications of the flag removal, not so much about why they have been
> removed. I think.
>
> Wonko
Interesting. I guess I'm no longer subscribed 'cause I haven't seen a
message from there in months. I'll go resubscribe.
Cheers,
Mark
