Michael, On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > Portage doesn't know what you want to do, so it does the safe thing and > lets you decide. Either,
Somewhat tongue-in-cheek: I don't know either. I don't want udev, udisks, hwdb or even know what they are. Somebody else wants all that stuff on my system (gentoo profile or the gentoo handbook author) and I wish that person would have addressed emerge's concerns WRT use flags. > The ruby_targets_ruby19 thing is a good example of where you may not > want that behavior by default. Something was screwed up, people noticed > it, and the devs ultimately fixed it. The most-correct thing to do was > nothing (i.e. wait). I didn't know what RUBY was or why it was on my system or who wanted it or whether that person wanted ruby_targets_ruby19 or RUBY_TARGETS or whatever. Me "waiting" would require 1) that I knew RUBY was a "temporary problem" that would be fixed in the future [I assumed it was not... just like hwdb] and 2) that I not perform an emerge sync/world. Thank you! Chris
