Bug 156527

Summary:	emerge --newuse forces rebuild when use flag is removed
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	czarkoff
Priority:	High
Version:	2.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Caleb Cushing 2006-11-28 10:40:03 UTC

I've always had arts disabled.I put -arts in my make.conf however I see that the arts flag was just hard masked. now all of my kde packages want to rebuild with  --newuse even though arts isn't really being removed. I have noticed similar behavior before with flags being added but are still "off" and I can't understand why any of this requires a rebuild when nothing for the package has changed.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-28 10:50:03 UTC

It's not hardmasked, it's been removed. And the --newuse behaviour is by design, not a bug. Read the reply Flameeyes posted on gentoo-dev ML please...

Comment 2 Caleb Cushing 2006-11-28 10:52:36 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> It's not hardmasked, it's been removed. And the --newuse behaviour is by
> design, not a bug. Read the reply Flameeyes posted on gentoo-dev ML please...
> 

did. posted this just before that. mr. warner's suggestion. see prior post ;)

Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-28 11:01:15 UTC

So, to re-state it here in case anyone else reads this bug in future: There's no way for portage to know whether a removed use flag has been removed because the feature is now hard-enabled or hard-disabled, so it just does the proper thing and forces re-emerge.

Closing this. :)

Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-05-04 19:27:49 UTC

*** Bug 177080 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***