Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:40:39 -0300 "Daniel da Veiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe I'm wrong, but binary packages are BINARY (-k), so, you can't > change their USE, because they're already compiled, they'll use the > flags that were used by the time the package was created. If you > install it creating binaries (FEATURES="buildpkg" emerge xorg-x1) now > with another USE or emerge it and create the binaries after it > (quickpkg), then you may get what you want when you try and reinstall > it. > > Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, I'm using logic here, not > exactly empiric knowledge ;) But it's right :-). Even if xorg-x11 may be a "meta" package, it's a package, after all. And thus it's set of USE flags (and those additional configuration vars that are listed in verbose output of emerge) was *fixed* when the binary was created. That makes perfectly sense -- if you want it to get rebuild, don't use -k. And it's a meta package, it does download nothing at all. So having a binary of it doesn't make much sense if there's a very heterogenous number of clients that make use of the binaries. For restoring the machine that built the binaries, however, it makes perfectly sense (as long as hardware doesn't change). -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
