Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:29:48 -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > > Portage doesn't know what you want to do, so it does the safe thing > > and lets you decide. Either, > > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/12/2012 12:29 AM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Michael, > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Michael Orlitzky > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Michael, On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Michael Orlitzky 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/11/2012 07:30 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: >> I think Chris' question is more about why he has to manually activate >> this USE flag, as it seems to be necessary anyway, in his case. > > Alex, > > Yes this is correct. I see now I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > I think Chris' question is more about why he has to manually activate > this USE flag, as it seems to be necessary anyway, in his case. Alex, Yes this is correct. I see now I was far too wordy in the OP and thank you for your terse transla

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:57:42 -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote about "[gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb": [snip] >A month ago emerge insisted that I enable a USE flag >"ruby_targets_ruby19" to a bunch of packages on my system. That is not really coded as a USE flag. Y

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:57:42 -0700 > Chris Stankevitz wrote: > > Today emerge is asking me to add "=sys-fs/udev-171-r6 hwdb" to > > package.use to appease udisk. Just as before, this looks fishy to me > > and I would like to get your opinion about how to properly satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:57:42 -0700 Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Hello, > > Background: > > I enable USE flags by adding them to /etc/portage/package.use. This > file is filled with all sorts of "personal preference customizations" > of my system. This file does not contain "required system USE f

[gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, Background: I enable USE flags by adding them to /etc/portage/package.use. This file is filled with all sorts of "personal preference customizations" of my system. This file does not contain "required system USE flags". A month ago emerge insisted that I enable a USE flag "ruby_targets_