Whenever I switch on a USE flag for a single package via /etc/portage/package.use, after the next "emerge-webrsync" "emerge -DNuvp world" shows that all other packages with this USE flag would need an update, too. This happens only with "<use_flag>", not "-<use_flag>". Example: I switched bogofilter from berkdb to sqlite. # grep sqlite /etc/portage/package.use mail-filter/bogofilter sqlite -berkdb # emerge -DNuvp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.5 USE="cups doc gif opengl sqlite* zlib -debug -examples -firebird -immqt -immqt-bc -ipv6 -mysql -nas -odbc -postgres -xinerama" 0 kB [ebuild U ] media-fonts/unifont-1.0-r3 [1.0-r2] USE="X" 0 kB [ebuild NS ] dev-db/sqlite-2.8.16-r2 USE="doc nls -tcltk" 0 kB [ebuild R ] app-backup/bacula-1.36.3-r2 USE="X ncurses postgres readline sqlite* tcpd -client-only -gnome -mysql -static" 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-libs/libsndfile-1.0.12-r1 USE="flac sqlite* -static" 0 kB [ebuild U ] media-fonts/artwiz-fonts-2.4-r2 [2.4-r1] 0 kB [ebuild U ] media-fonts/terminus-font-4.14-r1 [4.14] USE="X" 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB # emerge info|grep sqlite USE="x86 X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi activefilter alsa aotuv arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 caps cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr chipcard cpudetection crypt cups curl dlloader doc dri dtaus dts dv dvd dvdread edl emacs emboss encode exif expat fam ffmpeg flac font-server foomaticdb ftp gd-external gdbm geldkarte gif glut gmp gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk2 guile hardened hbci httpd i8x0 icq idn imagemagick imap imlib ipppd irmc isdnlog jpeg jpeg2k kcal kde latex lcms ldap ldapsam libg++ libwww lm_sensors lzo mad madwifi maildir mbox mime mjpeg mng motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer mule musicbrainz ncurses nls no-old-linux noantlr nobcel nobeanutils nobsh nocommonslogging nocommonsnet nojdepend nojsch nojython nolog4j nooro noregexp norhino noxalan noxerces nptl nptlonly nsplugin objc ofx ogg oggvorbis openexr opengl pam pam_console pcre pdflib perl perlsuid pg-intdatetime pic png ppds pppd pwdb python qt quicktime rdesktop readline real recode rtc samba savedconfig slp sockets socks5 speedo speex spell sql sqlite sse ssl stream subversion svg symlink sysfs tcpd tetex theora threads tiff toolbar truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vcd vidix vim-with-x vlm vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xine xml2 xosd xprint xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU" To solve this, I had to add "-sqlite" to /etc/make.conf. Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5-vanilla, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre13 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 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-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/gentoo/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org" LINGUAS="de" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/gentoo/build" PORTDIR="/gentoo/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/gentoo/build/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi activefilter alsa aotuv arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 caps cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr chipcard cpudetection crypt cups curl dlloader doc dri dtaus dts dv dvd dvdread edl emacs emboss encode exif expat fam ffmpeg flac font-server foomaticdb ftp gd-external gdbm geldkarte gif glut gmp gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk2 guile hardened hbci httpd i8x0 icq idn imagemagick imap imlib ipppd irmc isdnlog jpeg jpeg2k kcal kde latex lcms ldap ldapsam libg++ libwww lm_sensors lzo mad madwifi maildir mbox mime mjpeg mng motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer mule musicbrainz ncurses nls no-old-linux noantlr nobcel nobeanutils nobsh nocommonslogging nocommonsnet nojdepend nojsch nojython nolog4j nooro noregexp norhino noxalan noxerces nptl nptlonly nsplugin objc ofx ogg oggvorbis openexr opengl pam pam_console pcre pdflib perl perlsuid pg-intdatetime pic png ppds pppd pwdb python qt quicktime rdesktop readline real recode rtc samba savedconfig slp sockets socks5 speedo speex spell sql sse ssl stream subversion svg symlink sysfs tcpd tetex theora threads tiff toolbar truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vcd vidix vim-with-x vlm vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xine xml2 xosd xprint xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS
Don't really see the problem so far. Need more info anyway, especially - output of `emerge -pv bogofilter` - contents of /var/db/pkg/mail-filter/bogofilter*/USE and PKGUSE
This seems like typical auto-use behavior. When dev-db/sqlite is installed, the sqlite USE flag is automatically enabled globally. For reference, see use.defaults in `man portage` and USE_ORDER in `man 5 make.conf`. Note that auto-use is very unpopular and will likely be removed in the future.
(In reply to comment #2) > This seems like typical auto-use behavior. Yeah... @Dirk: Bad example, try with something that's not in /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults I remember at least two invalid bugs in last week caused by auto use; I'd really like to see this annoying feature go rather sooner than later.
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > This seems like typical auto-use behavior. > > Yeah... > > @Dirk: Bad example, try with something that's not in > /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults From looking at this file, this seems like hard to find. > I remember at least two invalid bugs in last week caused by auto use; I'd > really like to see this annoying feature go rather sooner than later. I'd second that. I switched it off via USE_ORDER, now.
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