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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] masking useflag for prefix in an overlay
Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 03:03:20
Message-Id: 518085F1.9020204@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] masking useflag for prefix in an overlay by "François Bissey"
1 On 04/30/2013 07:45 PM, François Bissey wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I have at least one ebuild in an overlay that I try to maintain as
5 > prefix friendly as possible. I have discovered that one of the ebuild
6 > we carry has a useflag that is not working properly on macos-x86
7 > (at least on 10.5.8). So I proceeded to mask it in:
8 > profiles/prefix/darwin/macos/arch/x86/package.use.mask
9 > However once I synced the overlay on my Mac the useflag was still
10 > available for that ebuild.
11 >
12 > Am I doing something wrong or are the overlays not inheriting that part of
13 > the profile?
14
15 If you do it that way, then the user's profile would have to inherit
16 that profile explicitly from your overlay. Instead, you probably want to
17 use ${repository}/profiles/package.use.mask, which has been supported
18 for nearly 2 years now:
19
20 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370693
21
22 --
23 Thanks,
24 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-alt] masking useflag for prefix in an overlay "François Bissey" <francois.bissey@×××××××××××××.nz>