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I am having a problem with portage ignoring my USE flags set in /etc/make.conf. /etc/make.conf exists, is syntactically correct, and has correct permissions set. I am not in a chroot environment or anything unusual like that. I have been using this configuration for weeks now with no issues.

 

portage is only ignoring the flags set in /etc/make.conf. It is not ignoring environment variables from the command line, or /etc/portage/package.use. I am using the default desktop profile, and have not changed anything in there recently.

 

Here's whats happening when I do 'emerge --update --deep world -p' to illustrate the problem:

 

localhost ~ # emerge --update --deep world -p

 

 

Here's whats happening when I do 'emerge --update --deep world -p'

 

localhost ~ # emerge --update --deep world -p

 

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

 

Calculating world dependencies... done!

[ebuild     U ] app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.16 [0.1.15]

 

# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage

# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example

CFLAGS="-Os -march=i586 -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs -mmmx -m32"

LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -s"

CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu"

USE="-oss voice weather libao -esd amarok xine java mp3 gnutls cups ppds \

     foomatic-db alsa \ hal gimpprint freetype X unicode \

     moznocompose moznoirc moznomail kde qt samba rdesktop kerberos \