Stricter --newuse settings

I know that newuse is stricter now. but do my packages
really have to
want to rebuild because a flag was hard masked. e.g. arts
when I had
-arts in my make.conf already? seems like it's a little too
strict.
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Caleb Cushing wrote:
> I know that newuse is stricter now. but do my packages
really have to
> want to rebuild because a flag was hard masked. e.g.
arts when I had
> -arts in my make.conf already? seems like it's a little
too strict.

You are free to file a bug at bugs.gentoo.org.  If a flag
goes from 
'off' to 'masked on your arch' then the flag shouldn't show
up in newuse 
(IMHO).  However I haven't looked at the code that manages
it in some 
time so I am unsure if this is the case.

In the end before filing the bug make sure you have can
explain exactly 
which use case you are referring to.

Thanks,

Alec Warner
antarusgentoo.org
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On Tuesday 28 November 2006 18:40, Caleb Cushing wrote:
> I know that newuse is stricter now. but do my packages
really have to
> want to rebuild because a flag was hard masked. e.g.
arts when I had
> -arts in my make.conf already? seems like it's a little
too strict.
This is not because of a use.mask over a flag, I'm afraid.
I've removed some 
arts useflags in the past days, a they are currently showing
everywhere 
there's a kde eclass uasage, this is suboptimal as most of
the times arts is 
not actually needed there.

When a flag is removed from a package it might be the same
as having it 
disabled or enabled, it depends, so --newuse does its job by
rebuilding the 
package.

Indeed even when a package _requires_ arts, I remove the
useflag and force 
arts on.

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