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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.use/java
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:03:15
Message-Id: 201011182040.23043.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.use/java by Mike Edenfield
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 17:52 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mike
2 Edenfield did opine thusly:
3
4 > Is there something special about the file name
5 > /etc/portage/package.use/java ? For some reason, if I create this file
6 > to hold USE flags for my java packages, bash tries to source it when I
7 > log in. As far as I can tell this is the only filename that gets this
8 > wierd treatment:
9 >
10 > platypus kutulu # cat /etc/portage/package.use/java
11 > echo "This is /etc/portage/package.use/java!"
12 >
13 > Last login: Thu Nov 18 10:35:07 EST 2010 from mike-desktop on pts/2
14 > This is /etc/portage/package.use/java!
15 > kutulu@platypus ~ $
16
17 I think you have a
18
19 . /etc/portage/package.use/java
20
21 in your .profile somewhere :-)
22
23 grep -r is your friend here. Most likely it happened when you typed an
24 "echo > file" type command sometime and botched the redirectors
25
26 --
27 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.use/java Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org>