On Saturday 28 March 2009 19:53:59 James wrote: > OK, let's play along.... > > I have both "webkit" and plasma in my make.conf file. > > So upon checking for updates, I get: > > [ebuild R ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.2.1-r3 USE="3dnow acl alsa bzip2 fam > jpeg2k mmxnls opengl semantic-desktop spell sse sse2 ssl (-altivec) > -bindist -debug -doc -kdeprefix -kerberos -openexr -test -zeroconf > (-plasma%) (-webkit%*)" 0 kB > > > > Hmmmmm, > > > It looks to me as though this version of kdelibs indeed > uses plasma and webkit but want to delete them, or is > this portages way of telling that theses are no longer > valid flags.
The latter. Specifically, You have these flags in USE, but portage is going to remerge kdelibs without them (-) as they are no longer valid (%) for 4.2.1-r3 The ebuild and the Changelog separately mention that these flags are now redundant as support is mandatory > If so are they no long valid for kdelibs (in which case > I leave them in make.conf) or are they completely > deprecated flages (and hence I should removed them > from make.conf)? The former. Other stuff is likely to make use of plasma and webkit (they are fairly generic things) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com