On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 08:47:01 +0100 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 22:51:58 -0500, »Q« wrote: > > > > > How can I find out whether the profile is setting those > > > > variables? > > > > > > By removing USE="-*". At the moment it doesn't matter which > > > profile you use or what it sets as you are then telling portage > > > to ignore all its settings, even the critical ones. > > > > I'm getting conflicting info on this. Do profiles really only set > > USE flags or do they do something else as well? (Or does USE="-*" > > affect things *other* than USE?) > > Things like PYTHON_TARGETS, X86_ABI and VIDEO_CARDS are implemented as > USE variables, so yes, -* clobbers them too. Thanks. > A lot more complicated if you have to follow a mailing list just to > keep your system working. You have essentially put your system into a > firefighting mode where you have to deal with each change as it breaks > things. I'd be reading this list anyway. The time I spend heading off and/or dealing with breakage due to *- is negligible, certainly nothing like being in constant firefighting mode. I guess I've spent more time in this thread, in which my system is neither broken nor in danger of breaking, than I've spent on problems due to *- over the past five years. I don't want to advocate for *-. I don't recommend it to anybody. I don't particularly want to argue about how good/bad/ugly it is with anybody, but it's it's tough not to argue when people are telling me I'm causing myself problems and I'm not seeing any such problems.
