Talk:TIP Portage's newuse option

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As far as I can tell, Yellow indicates obsolete USE flags.

-Andrew 2. June 2008


Request: Please include a description of the output of "emerge -avuND". In particular, it would be helpful to know what the Red, Green, Yellow, and Blue USE flag colors represent. My best GUESS is:

  • Blue - Unchanged Flag
  • Green - Changed Enabled Flag
  • Red - Changed Disabled Flag
  • Yellow - ?

-Aaron 10 Dec, 2006

I added the 'update' switch to the example command line, because I don't think the 'deep' switch works properly without 'update'. See this forum post and this page in the official docs. Does that sound right to everyone? --chrismear 15:10, 11 Jul 2005 (GMT)


How does portage deal with the change of CFLAG -march ? I recently switched from i686 to athlon64 (keeping normal i686 CHOST) and I'd like all my apps to be built against those options... could the --newuse option help?

No. The newuse option doesn't check C(XX)FLAGS at all. To rebuild your entire system you'd need to use the -e (--emptytree) flag, ie. to rebuild your entire system: emerge -e world
--AllenJB 12:06, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
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