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From: Robert Piasek <robert@×××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make the "policykit" USE flag global
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:07:28
Message-Id: 200903200806.38551.robert@piasek.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make the "policykit" USE flag global by Zac Medico
1 Hi Zac,
2
3 On Thursday 19 March 2009 19:20:52 Zac Medico wrote:
4 > Robert Piasek wrote:
5 > > I think it would be also good idea to add policykit support and finally
6 > > unmask it. It seems some packages have hardcoded --without-policy-kit /
7 > > --without- policykit and some others add policykit to package.use.mask
8 > > (btw can it be unmasked by user from portage level??).
9 >
10 > You can unmask the flag globally like this:
11 >
12 > mkdir -p /etc/portage/profile/
13 > echo -policykit >> /etc/portage/profile/use.mask
14 >
15 > Or, you can unmask it for a specific package like this:
16 >
17 > echo gnome-base/gnome-session -policykit >>
18 > /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask
19
20
21 Thanks Zac. I asked, because I couldn't find it in documentation (maybe it's
22 just me being lazy and not trying hard enough though).
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25 Rob

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