Hello, Background:
I enable USE flags by adding them to /etc/portage/package.use. This file is filled with all sorts of "personal preference customizations" of my system. This file does not contain "required system USE flags". A month ago emerge insisted that I enable a USE flag "ruby_targets_ruby19" to a bunch of packages on my system. Feeling uncomfortable adding a "system required" USE flag to package.use (vs "personal preference customization"), I posted to this list and indeed learned that I was going about it all wrong! In that particular case, I should have added 'RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19"' to /etc/make.conf. Actually, the Gentoo team should add this to the profile... presumably they will eventually do this or have done so already. Question: Today emerge is asking me to add "=sys-fs/udev-171-r6 hwdb" to package.use to appease udisk. Just as before, this looks fishy to me and I would like to get your opinion about how to properly satisfy this seemingly system-required-use-flag. My gut instinct is that this USE flag requirement should be handled by the Gentoo team in the profile or in some other place that I never look at. What do you guys think? Should I append "udev hwdb" to package.use right after my long list of "personal preference customizations"? Thank you, Chris PS: A snippet from my /etc/portage/package.use: # Give a GUI to cmake dev-util/cmake qt4 # Enable nice mounts in gnome gnome-base/gvfs fuse # Enable plotting in octave sci-mathematics/octave gnuplot # Enable GNOME right-click to create targz app-arch/file-roller nautilus # Satisfy a dependency I do not understand needed by a package I never heard of =sys-fs/udev-171-r6 hwdb
