Emerge --newuse (-N) gives loads of USE="X%*" or (-X%*)

Zarhan · l33t Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 910

Mod edit: Changed title from "The new emerge 2.1.1 -N behaviour - is this really sensible?" --kallamej

I just emerge --synced and did my usual emerge -uvDaN world:

someone19 · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 51

Same behaivour on my system - Almost identical output... i'm updating portage to -r1 and will re-run to see if there is a change.

Anybody else with similar results?

UncleOwen · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:40 pm Post subject:

A very hacky one-liner to work around this:

for foo in `emerge -uDpvN world | grep 'X%*' | grep 'ebuild R' | sed -e 's/.*] //' | cut -d ' ' -f 1`; do echo ' X' >> /var/db/pkg/${foo}/IUSE; done

worksforme, use at your own risk!

hielvc · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:42 pm Post subject:

See this USE flags got massively messed up by themselves [solved].
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UncleOwen · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:45 pm Post subject:

kallamej · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:45 pm Post subject:

This is due to a change in the x-modular eclass. It now inherits the font eclass, which has "X" in its IUSE. You can try the following hack by agaffney in #gentoo-dev.

Zarhan · l33t Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 910

Worked for me.

The question still remains why such "hacks" are necessary. Hopefully some portage devs realize the issue might cause serious problems (consider if something happens with KDE eclass or something).

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masterdriverz · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:09 pm Post subject:

Could you change the subject to something that better reflects this threads contents, and add "[SOLVED]" to it?
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kallamej · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:20 pm Post subject:

yeye_olive · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 17

It looks like the issue in portage is not fixed yet. I have been having this problem with the "X" flag for a while now, and it recently got worse with the "kdehiddenvisibility" flag doing the same. emerge --newuse is simply unusable. I wonder why portage seems to have declined lately. Other features seem to be broken, like dependency management. I never had any problems a few months back.

Zarhan · l33t Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 910

Yep, also noticed the kdehiddenvisibility-thingie. I suppose I should just stop upgrading every week and do it like twice a year...

masterdriverz · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:03 pm Post subject:

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UncleOwen · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:57 pm Post subject:

It was never necessary.

pfadt_mann · n00b Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 55 Location: Dallas, Texas

May be this is a dumb question, but then again, I am still new to gentoo.

Why can't there be an option added to emerge to allow you to just accept the use flags the package needs. When I "emerge -vau world" I get the packages and their use flags listed. Instead of updating the make.conf, why can't I just tell emerge to go with what teh package tells me it wants?

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UncleOwen · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:19 pm Post subject:

A package doesn't need use flags. Nor does it want them. You do. Or don't. No way for portage to know that.