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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dir or file? >> /etc/portage/package.mask
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 19:59:47
Message-Id: 20200418205930.7b458c30@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] dir or file? >> /etc/portage/package.mask by tuxic@posteo.de
1 On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 19:56:19 +0200, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
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3 > I /thought/ that /etc/portage/package.mask is a file and using it
4 > in this manner works as exspected.
5 > Also the docs are of that opinion, too:
6
7 Are they> From man portage:
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9 /etc/portage/
10 Files in this directory including make.conf, repos.conf,
11 and any file with a name that begins with "package." can be more than
12 just a flat file. If it is a directory, then all the files in that
13 directory will be sorted in ascending alphabetical order by file name and
14 summed together as if it were a single file.
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18 Neil Bothwick
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20 If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.