Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses readline USE flag

2012-09-11 Thread Philip Webb
120911 Walter Dnes wrote: I realize -* requires extra work, and I'm willing to do it. That includes finding solutions to obscure problems. I've been using '-*' to begin the list of flags in make.conf forever; I do have a list of the flags I've en/disabled why. The only time I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses readline USE flag

2012-09-10 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 12:00:15PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: Or, when previewing what emerge world wants to do, note that a new flag is enabled, remove it yourself and let emerge world proceed when you are happy with it. s/remove/add and your advice works equally well for

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses readline USE flag

2012-09-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 08:41:36AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 23:42:45 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Isn't readline enabled by default on all reasonable profiles? Do you have USE=-* in make.conf? If so, it's just bitten you. Yup. I did that to avoid further

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses readline USE flag

2012-09-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 10. September 2012, 15:19:38 schrieb Walter Dnes: On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 08:41:36AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 23:42:45 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Isn't readline enabled by default on all reasonable profiles? Do you have USE=-* in make.conf? If so, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses readline USE flag

2012-09-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:07:08 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Montag, 10. September 2012, 15:19:38 schrieb Walter Dnes: On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 08:41:36AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 23:42:45 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Isn't readline

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses readline USE flag

2012-09-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:19:38 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I'd rather have that that an unusable shell. As was noted elsewhere this weekend, even if a USE flag is set but renamed, -* screws it up. So no matter what I do or don't do, a developer can find a way to screw me up. Yes, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses readline USE flag

2012-09-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 11, 2012 5:58 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:19:38 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I'd rather have that that an unusable shell. As was noted elsewhere this weekend, even if a USE flag is set but renamed, -* screws it up. So no matter what I do

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses readline USE flag

2012-09-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:15:47AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote But I stay clear of -* ... that thing's too eeevil for me... :-) I realize -* requires extra work, and I'm willing to do it. That includes finding solutions to obscure problems. Maybe it's because I'm a control freak. -- Walter

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses readline USE flag

2012-09-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 23:42:45 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Isn't readline enabled by default on all reasonable profiles? Do you have USE=-* in make.conf? If so, it's just bitten you. Yup. I did that to avoid further surprises after the developers in their infinite wisdom had IPV6 enabled

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses readline USE flag

2012-09-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 23:42:45 -0400 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 09:07:02AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote Isn't readline enabled by default on all reasonable profiles? Do you have USE=-* in make.conf? If so, it's just bitten you. Yup. I did that to

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses readline USE flag

2012-09-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 20:41:28 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I updated world yesterday, and discovered that bash functionality was severly degraded on my machine. No up-arrow to scroll through history, no tab-completion, etc, etc. A bit of Google searching turned up the fact that bash no-longer

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses readline USE flag

2012-09-08 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 09:07:02AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote Isn't readline enabled by default on all reasonable profiles? Do you have USE=-* in make.conf? If so, it's just bitten you. Yup. I did that to avoid further surprises after the developers in their infinite wisdom had IPV6 enabled

[gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses readline USE flag

2012-09-07 Thread Walter Dnes
I updated world yesterday, and discovered that bash functionality was severly degraded on my machine. No up-arrow to scroll through history, no tab-completion, etc, etc. A bit of Google searching turned up the fact that bash no-longer uses an internal readline library, but now depends on the