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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make the "policykit" USE flag global
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:20:46
Message-Id: 49C29B14.7020801@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make the "policykit" USE flag global by Robert Piasek
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4 Robert Piasek wrote:
5 > I think it would be also good idea to add policykit support and finally unmask
6 > it. It seems some packages have hardcoded --without-policy-kit / --without-
7 > policykit and some others add policykit to package.use.mask (btw can it be
8 > unmasked by user from portage level??).
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10 You can unmask the flag globally like this:
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12 mkdir -p /etc/portage/profile/
13 echo -policykit >> /etc/portage/profile/use.mask
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15 Or, you can unmask it for a specific package like this:
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17 echo gnome-base/gnome-session -policykit >>
18 /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask
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20 - --
21 Thanks,
22 Zac
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Make the "policykit" USE flag global Robert Piasek <robert@×××××××××.uk>