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On Wednesday 22 June 2011 18:46:55 Dale wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:54:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> >>>> Use a directory for package.use, it makes it far easier to |
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> >>>> manage. All of /etc/portage/package.* are directories here. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> I have done that for package.keywords and unmask. In ways it is |
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> >>> easier but in ways, it is a nightmare. If something is unmasked, I |
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> >>> have to go find the file that unmasked it. I have several since I |
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> >>> use autounmask for most of it. Then add in that the new autounmask |
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> >>> part of emerge seems to pick a random file to add too. At that |
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> >>> point, not much makes sense anymore. |
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> >> |
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> >> grep is your very very good friend |
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Hear, hear! |
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> > So is giving the files sensible names :) |
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> That was what I liked about autounmask, the tree version not the portage |
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> one. It gave them some names at least. Still felt like looking for a |
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> needle in a haystack sometimes tho. |
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I'm with you, Dale. I have no /etc/portage/package.* directories here on |
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this amd64 box - I just keep entries in alphabetical order in single files. I |
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find it easier. |
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I've also found it much easier to manage flags etc by setting the kde profile |
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(this being a kde box, of course - gnome is too arrogant for me). It makes |
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for a nice, simple USE line in make.conf. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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