On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:34:57 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> excerpted below, on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:36:53 -0500:
>
> > Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> >>
> >> Duncan wrote:
> >>> whatever USE flag removal forcing --newuser rebuild, when I as a
> >>> /human/ know it's not needed.
> >>
> >> If you're sure you know it's not needed, just edit
> >> /var/db/pkg/$cat/$pkg/{USE,IUSE} to reflect that (i.e. if there was
> >> arts flag removed and you know the ebuild didn't actually need/use it,
> >> remove it from IUSE, and possibly USE) and --newuse won't trigger no
> >> more. It's a bit of hack, but works, for user it's the same amount of
> >> work as editing some newuse.mask file, for portage developers it's no
> >> work :)
> >>
> > oi, don't recommend people edit the vdb *cringes*
>
> LOL. Such a hack didn't occur to me, probably for just that reason (tho
> like many hacks, it might prove useful at times, for personal use
> only with an appropriate pre-hack backup of course). It occurs to me that
> portage devs may prefer the bit of work to "no work", but having to deal
> with the consequential bug biteback should this recommendation enter
> common usage.
Well, I definitely prefer people doing it manually than adding an emerge option
to do exactly that (as was already suggested a while ago), that leaves at least
the hope that they know what they're doing. But I guess making --newuse
somewhat configurable wouldn't hurt (too many people annoyed with it recently).
Marius
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