> Did the package you tried to re-emerge actually use any of the USE flags > you changed? The most common use for --newuse is emerge --newuse > (--update) world, to re-emerge all packages that use the new flags.
Yes it did or at least I'm sure it should! Is there anyway to find out? I was re-emerging PHP and mod_php with the use flag mssql. I checked afterwards with # equery uses php [ Searching for packages matching php... ] [ Colour Code : set unset ] [ Legend : Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ] [ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ] [ Found these USE variables for dev-php/php-4.3.10 ] U I + + mssql : Adds support for Microsoft SQL Server database The mssql bit shows up red. But if I do a phpinfo(); it shows me the configure statement had '--without-mssql' in it. So maybe php is unaffected by the use flag mssql? > > If you're just changing the flags for one package, you might as well > just change the flags (either in /etc/make.conf or in > /etc/portage/package.use) and just re-emerge the package normally. > > Holly > Thanks Gareth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
