Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:33:58 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>
>> cat rubygems
>> >=dev-ruby/rubygems-2.2.5-r1 ruby_targets_ruby21
>> >=virtual/rubygems-10 ruby_targets_ruby21
>>
>> Is this format acceptable? Or should I have used two separate files,
>> one for 'dev-lang/rubygems', and another for 'virtual/rubygems'?
>
> Use whatever suits you, portage doesn't care whether you use one file for
> everything or one file for each setting.
>
> My preference is to create a file for each program I use, and put the
> settings for dependent packages in there, that way I know what they
> relate to. It also means that if I remove the package, I can remove the
> file too. This to my mind is the key advantage of the separate file
> approach, a single file is too unwieldy without extensive comments, and I
> am too lazy to add useful comments.
>
> But it's up to you, do whatever works for your way of thinking - it's all
> the same to portage.
>
> One thing to be aware of is that portage adds "auto-unmask" entries to the
> "last" file in package.use, so I always create a zzz-auto-unmask file
> then transfer entries from there to the appropriate location.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>

Understood. Thanks.