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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:51:22
Message-Id: 4E499492.3060201@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again by "Sebastian Beßler"
1 Sebastian Beßler wrote:
2 > Am 15.08.2011 21:34, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
3 >
4 >
5 >> Do you have autounmask enabled or disabled in your config for portage?
6 >>
7 > I have it enabled because it is enabled by default. You have to explicit
8 > disable it.
9 > So, because it is enabled by default, I never asked portage to
10 > autounmask anything for me.
11 >
12 >
13
14 Well sort of. Since you didn't disable it, portage did what it was told
15 to do. I sort of like on by default otherwise I may not know there is a
16 new "feature". Then again, it can be bad since it could bork something
17 else and you not know until it was done.
18
19 Dale
20
21 :-) :-)