On Friday 13 January 2006 11:15, Wernfried Haas wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 06:57:24AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > existing stable users wont be affected as the 2.0.x versions will > > continue to carry support for this, but some of you stable users may > > notice some USE > > flags suddenly "disappearing" > > I'm a bit confused, existing stable users won't be affected, but they > will notice use flags "disappearing"? Wouldn't that mean they are > affected or did you simply mistype and mean unstable?
correct, should have said unstable > > to recap, use.defaults inserts USE flags for you based upon what packages > > you have installed when you havent declared a preference. for example, > > if you have neither '-cups' or 'cups' in your USE (either in your > > make.conf, profile, env, whatever), but you do have the net-print/cups > > package installed, portage will add 'cups' to your USE > > That's the current behaviour in stable 2.0.x and will be gone with > 2.1, right? yes -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
