On Monday 30 October 2006 15:21, Sascha Lucas wrote: > > Forgive my saying this, but that is a stupendous waste of my cpu > > cycles and time. A better solution must exist - if this moves to > > arch unchanged the gentoo user base will go ballistic > > from portage pkg_postinst: > ---------- > In portage-2.1.1, emerge --newuse is now sensitive to changes in > IUSE. Immediately after upgrade from 2.1, users may notice a > significantly larger number of packages pulled in by --newuse, but > that behavior is normal. For additional information regarding this > change, please see bugs #116955, #144333, #144661, and #146060. > ---------- > > I recommend to burdening @ #116955, or helping @ #144333 :-)
I read all those bugs and comments, especially this one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144333#c6 and it seems that we have a trade-off here - put up with the occasional redundant remerge, or put up with the mostly constant nuisance of yet another option to emerge and the decision process that goes with it - to use or not to use this new option. On balance, maybe the former is the route of least pain alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
