Bugzilla Bug 120973

profuse says USE flags are enabled when they aren't and probably visa versa.
It's very unreliable and should be masked atm. It has caused me to misconfigure
3 of my computers, and added alot of work for me to do. ufed seems to work fine
and I have since switched over. Thank You.

can you give me more information? which version do you use, which USE flag is
badly handled ?

thanks

I've tried 0.23.0 and 0.24.0 and found both php and flac (among others, which I
can't remember) were both marked as enabled and in reality they were disabled.
(I was wondering for the longest time why oggenc's flac plugin wasn't working!)

Created an attachment (id=78531) [edit]
patch to correctly expand virtual package names

This patch has been created on 0.25.1, but can be applied to 0.24.0 too.

added patch regarding virtuals.

This might be one part of the solution : some flags in use.defaults are
referring to virtuals, but I forgot to expand the virtuals to the actually
installed package. This caused some false negatives : flags were seen as _not_
set where they were set.

Could you apply and test? On my system, ufed results and profuse are exactly
the same, with the path applied.

Thanks for your feedback

> some flags in use.defaults

portage 2.1* doesn't use use.defaults anymore; if profuse does use it (and it
seems so), there's the problem :)

Avuton, could you check profuse-0.25.2 ?

It includes use.defaults fix, and disable use.defaults support for portage >
2.0.54 (which version of portage do you actually use ?)

Everything appears to be fixed now! Thanks :), Although I must request that old
versions be removed, and mark the new one stable ASAP, otherwise what happened
to me could happen elsewhere. Once again, thanks.

profuse-0.25.2 is not working correctly with portage-2.0.54 as that version of
portage is still using the use.defaults file.  As a quick test, I emerged
dev-libs/gmp which turns on the gmp USE flag.  When I started profuse-0.25.2,
it did not show the flag as set.  Here is my emerge info on the relevant
system.

Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages sandbox
sfperms strict stricter userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr
crypt cups curl eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm
gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml idn imlib ipv6 jpeg kde lcms
ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl
spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml2 xmms
xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Sorry for the bug spam, I forgot to add myself to the CC

Indeed, use.defaults is removed in portage >= 2.1.0 instead of > 2.0.54. I
corrected, please try profuse 0.25.3

it's corrected in profuse 0.25.3, works for me at least. Please try it