On 2010-05-03, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> After stumbling around this issue on several machines for way too >> long, I finally stumbled across the solution: don't enable/disable >> qt3support on a per-package basis. If you want qt3support put it in >> /etc/make.conf. [...]
> I rarely put a USE flag in anything but make.conf. I tend to -- probably misleading myself that I'm "saving" on something (disk space, update time, who knows). > Usually, if I need support for something, it is more than one package > or that one package will want the support enabled for other packages > it builds on as well. I'll have to remember that -- it will probably avoid similar problems with other subsystems. > Glad you got it figured out tho. At least by learning it the hard way, > you won't forget it. ;-) Sad to say, but I probably will. Hopefully google will find my post. Honestly, that's happend to me a couple times: I trip over a problem, and when looking for the solution Google finds a 6 year old thread (I started) from the first time I ran into the problem. It's really embarassing when your working with somebody else on the problem and _they_ stumble across that old thread containing the solution. -- Grant