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Bug 158008 - Portage causes unnecessary emerges when USE flags change in profiles
Summary: Portage causes unnecessary emerges when USE flags change in profiles
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 81405
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2006-12-13 03:36 UTC by Peter Humphrey
Modified: 2006-12-13 03:40 UTC (History)
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Description Peter Humphrey 2006-12-13 03:36:15 UTC
If a profile's USE flag for, say, djvu, changes so that the flag is always overridden off, any packages that use the flag are remerged even if they had previously been emerged with the flag unset. This caused me many hours of time wastage recently when kdehiddenvisibility was overridden off - it had always been unset on my workstation, but I had no alternative to remerging large swathes of KDE anyway.
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-12-13 03:40:12 UTC
Portage knows zero about use flag semantics, and will remain so... Use flags changed -> --newuse will trigger it.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81405 ***