Am Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:53:12 -0700 schrieb walt <w41...@gmail.com>: > I don't understand 'introspection' enough to know why we need it, but > apparently we do, so don't use the -introspection useflag like I did. > > The trouble I introduced a few weeks ago when I disabled introspection > was subtle enough that I didn't realize until yesterday that I even had > a problem. > > Portage had been doing mildly insane things that other people were not > seeing, so as a test I removed the -introspection useflag and spent the > entire day rebuilding packages. My portage problem appears to be > fixed. I hope. > > If anyone can splain what introspection does I'd be grateful.
This should help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_introspection. In this case I believe it's related to the gobject type system that comes from glib. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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