Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] best way to use profiles and package.use.mask?
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:32:04
Message-Id: 48A344C1.2010306@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] best way to use profiles and package.use.mask? by Steve Dibb
1 Steve Dibb kirjoitti:
2 >
3 > Are there ever any cases where we could just simply put the use flag as
4 > restricted in the global package.use.mask and then unrestrict them in
5 > the profiles ones if, for example, it only worked on one or a few
6 > arches? Or is the best policy always to mask it on each profile?
7 >
8
9 Yes. Take a look at /usr/portage/profiles/base/package.use.mask. The
10 best policy is IMHO to mask in base an unmask where it works as that
11 requires the least entries in the profiles.
12
13 Regards,
14 Petteri

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