How to find out what forces USE flag

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Uzytkownik · Post by **Uzytkownik** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 7:02 am

Suddenly something started forcing -systemd USE flag on polkit. Any hints how to find out what is it?

[ebuild  N     ] sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.5_p20120320-r1  USE="acl pam policykit -debug -doc (-selinux) {-test}" 101 kB
[ebuild   R    ] sys-auth/pambase-20120417-r1  USE="consolekit* cracklib gnome-keyring sha512 systemd -debug -minimal -mktemp -pam_krb5 -pam_ssh -passwdqc (-selinux)" 0 kB
[ebuild   R    ] sys-auth/polkit-0.107-r1  USE="gtk introspection nls pam -examples -kde (-selinux) (-systemd*)" 0 kB

Veldrin · Post by **Veldrin** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 11:22 am

If it is masked like this, then it is usually the profile masking it.

Uzytkownik · Post by **Uzytkownik** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:04 pm

Veldrin wrote:If it is masked like this, then it is usually the profile masking it.

Why would it masked only this package? Also where would it be masked (I read use.mask of profile, profile parents etc. before posting on forum)?

VoidMage · Post by **VoidMage** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 7:55 pm

Seems you were not thorough enough - see /usr/portage/profiles/base/package.use.mask.

petlab · Post by **petlab** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:19 pm

I'm using sys-apps/portage-2.2.0-alpha149_p13.
After several trial and error, I found that I needed to use the "double-negative" technique. Specifically:

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-systemd

Portage didn't like these filenames:

/etc/portage/use.mask
/etc/portage/package.use.mask

which I first tried.

HTH

How to find out what forces USE flag

How to find out what forces USE flag

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