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On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 03:59:25 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> > Though I would prefix the atom with ~ instead of = to cover patch |
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> > level updates. |
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> I have looked for a place where it is documented how to do that. I know |
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> there is a lot of ways to add packages to those files with <=> and such |
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> in front of the package names. Do you have a link to some docs on |
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> that? If not, some examples would be cool. |
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man portage |
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man 5 ebuild |
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The latter has more detail. |
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> Well, I was going to try adding the variable to make.conf as posted in |
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> another email. I think that may be better since this seems to be a |
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> issue that is "in flux" at the moment. ;-) |
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I think the very fluxiness of it would put me off enabling it globally |
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and set it case by case until things had settled down. |
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BTW eix-test-obsolete is a good tool for cleaning up /etc/portage, |
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finding all sorts of per-package settings you set and forgot about. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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But I thought YOU did the backups... |
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