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Bug 254747 - app-emulation/libvirt: package needs at least one USE flag but no USE flag enabled by default
Summary: app-emulation/libvirt: package needs at least one USE flag but no USE flag en...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High QA (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Xen Devs
URL: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/01/12/t...
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Keywords:
: 260124 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-01-12 23:23 UTC by Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED)
Modified: 2009-05-27 20:14 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-01-12 23:23:33 UTC
Hello,

You're receiving this canned (template-based) bug report because I found an annoyance with a package during my tinderbox run.

The package in question is checking for one out of a series of USE flags to be enabled, likely because these are multiple selectable backends, but it currently does not use the EAPI=1 feature of default USE flags to work out of the box.

You can see in my blog post in the URL field why that's a problem, and how to address the issue.

It would be very kind of you for both users and developers working on automated reporting, if the ebuild for the package enabled by default at least one backend (more might be enabled if needed).

Please note that sometimes you don't feel the need for this because the desktop profile already enables some of the USE flags, but please consider the idea of enabling them nonetheless, it would help a lot.

Thanks,
Diego
Comment 1 Balazs Nemeth 2009-01-15 14:05:44 UTC
This is a bug definitely. I've tried to emerge virtd just because of virt-viewer to monitor a remote server. Because I dont't have any kvm related stuff on my desktop (the remote server has) I didn't set any plus use flag.

For testing purpose I've set kvm use flag. But this gave me another error, because I don't have any KVM support in my kernel. Again this is a desktop, I only want to managa a remote KVM server. Is this behavior on purpose?
Comment 2 Łukasz Damentko (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-24 16:46:26 UTC
*** Bug 260124 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Justin Huff 2009-04-08 20:19:50 UTC
At the risk of sounding like 'me too': I have the same request.
thanks!
Comment 4 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-05-27 20:14:35 UTC
There is a default flag now and there's a check for it that's valid.