Bug 109540

Summary:	Adding +unicode wo/ re-emerging ncurses makes dialog fail
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Steve Clement <steve>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Steve Clement 2005-10-17 02:01:00 UTC

If you add +unicode to the use flags on an stage3 install, emerge dialog will
fail on -libncursesw

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE="+unicode" emerge dialog
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
libncursesw failed

Expected Results:  
dialog would recognize the USE flag change and re-emerge ncurses

Well I don't know what the right procedure is here, but a new Gentoo user won't
understand a thing if it fails on such an error.

So the dialog ebuild should have some sort of mechanism to recognize that
ncurses has been compiled without unicode and recompile it.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-22 10:55:55 UTC

Portage can't do that (so far), you need to use 'emerge --newuse -uD world'
after changing USE flags.