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From: Michel Catudal <mcatudal@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 15:04:36
Message-Id: 55E5BE66.8000809@comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory by Bill Kenworthy
1 Le 2015-09-01 06:21, Bill Kenworthy a écrit :
2 > Hey! - I am not the only one doing this then :)
3 >
4 > And it was also because of a cross-compiler. When I looked at how much
5 > extra work this type fragmentation causes, and how little (or any!)
6 > advantage it gives makes one wonder about the designers sanity ...
7 >
8 > BillK
9 >
10 >
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12 I think that it is a very good idea. You can have several files in that directory. For example you can have one for anything to do with app that need a lot of override, this is needed a lot for MIPS and ARM ports.
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14 Enven on a PC with AMD64 that can be usefull
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16 michel@michel ~ $ dir /etc/portage/package.use/
17 total 28
18 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 1 sep 10:59 .
19 drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 5 aoû 23:11 ..
20 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 326 30 jun 19:57 cross-armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi
21 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 366 1 jui 12:01 cross-mipsel-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi
22 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33 22 fév 2015 iputils
23 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1988 1 jui 21:36 misc.use
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26 The misc.use on my ARM boards is getting a little big so I will split it in pieces to make it more readable.
27 When you need to add stuff, a big file is not as easy to handle. Having multiple files makes this very handy.
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