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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: why is a line in /usr/portage/profiles/base/package.use.mask ignored?
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:56:06
Message-Id: 20150226170147.221d095d@hobbit
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: why is a line in /usr/portage/profiles/base/package.use.mask ignored? by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 02:22:40 +0000 (UTC)
2 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
3
4 > Alan McKinnon posted on Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:00:57 +0200 as excerpted:
5 >
6 > > Why are you messing around with the profile anyway, when all the
7 > > available documentation in many many places tells you to set your
8 > > chosen USE for specific packages in package.use?
9 >
10 > I believe you missed his email address, @gentoo.org. =8^0
11 >
12 > IOW, he's a dev, trying to actually set a profile setting for
13 > others. But his own testing says it's not working, thus the question
14 > (for which bkohler has provided an answer).
15 >
16 > /That/ is why he's messing with the profile, instead of setting his
17 > chosen USE for that package in package.use. =:^)
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20 You're right, I did miss that. I'd just dealt with a backlog of unread
21 mails in -user and didn't notice this thread is in -dev. My bad.
22
23 It seems apologies to our devs are in order.