On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 00:48:48 +0000, Victor Ivanov wrote:

> > But does it take into account the USE flags with which those packages
> > were installed? That used to not be the case, but I haven't used
> > equery for a long time, for just that reason.
> >   
> Fair point, `equery u <atom>` shows both the default USE flags as well 
> as those with which the package is installed. The latter can be stale
> if USE flags have been tampered with and the package has not yet been 
> rebuilt with the new set of USE flags but otherwise it should match the 
> state. So I always assumed that this is the case for all operations as 
> it would make sense.

I was thinking particularly of the dependency calculations. That's why I
prefer to use portage's own dependency calculations, i.e. emerge -c.


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Neil Bothwick

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