-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 10 February 2006 20:20, Shawn Haggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about '[gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour': >> I recently installed the unstable version of portage. >> >> However a recent 'emerge -Duva world --newuse' turned up a long list of >> packages. Closer inspection showed that packages had been built with >> flags such as mysql, but thought it was now turned off and wanted to >> rebuild without it. >> >> Has anyone else experienced this behaviour? Is it something to do with >> modifications to how the new portage version handles use flags that >> hasn't been incorporated into ufed or profuse yet? > > This is a well-documented change in portage. The use.defaults file is no > longer used. Previously, this file would turn on use flags that were > neither enabled nor disabled based on packages you had installed. This > was a bad idea to begin with, IMHO; RIP use.defaults. > Ahh, I figured something like this, just hadn't RTFM apparently. That's what I get for living on the edge.
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