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From: Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.use/java
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:37:35
Message-Id: 4CE58059.4090500@kutulu.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.use/java by Alan McKinnon
1 On 11/18/2010 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > Apparently, though unproven, at 17:52 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mike
3 > Edenfield did opine thusly:
4 >
5 >> Is there something special about the file name
6 >> /etc/portage/package.use/java ? For some reason, if I create this file
7 >> to hold USE flags for my java packages, bash tries to source it when I
8 >> log in. As far as I can tell this is the only filename that gets this
9 >> wierd treatment:
10
11 > grep -r is your friend here. Most likely it happened when you typed an
12 > "echo > file" type command sometime and botched the redirectors
13
14 Huh. Found it, but now I'm even more confused than before:
15
16 platypus ~ # ls -alF /etc/bash_completion.d/java
17 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Nov 16 08:18 /etc/bash_completion.d/java ->
18 //etc/portage/package.use/java
19
20 I'm pretty sure I didn't actually make that softlink myself, and I have
21 no idea where it came from:
22
23 platypus ~ # equery belongs /etc/bash_completion.d/java
24 * Searching for /etc/bash_completion.d/java ...
25 platypus ~ #
26
27 --Mike

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Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.use/java Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>