On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 02:50:30PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > A new use has shown up named "verify-sig". It seems simple enough from > its euse description but its causing a large number of packages to be > rebuilt unnecessarily (it defaults to off on my sytems). Should I > enable it? - I can find much info on it and it looks like it will cause > major user hassles considering its effects so far - I am surprised there > has been no news item for it which probably means its not considered a > useful use flag.
Use --changed-use/-U rather than --newuse/-N when using emerge. With --changed-use, if USE is changing from to: enabled -> removed = rebuilds disabled -> removed = ignores (changes nothing, no rebuild needed) missing -> disabled = ignores (likewise, this is the verify-sig) missing -> enabled = rebuilds While --newuse rebuilds in all 4 cases. There's largely no reason to enable verify-sig as you're already verifying through the Manifest. This is primarily intended for developers, albeit for users it can give some assurance that signatures were checked. -- ionen
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