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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:34:46
Message-Id: 4E13E2ED.3060807@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:43:36 -0500, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >>>> Then again, that is yet another option to have to remember too.
6 >>>> Jeez.
7 >>>>
8 >>> That's why we have EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS :)
9 >>>
10 >
11 >> Yea but I don't always want it to unmask packages either. If I was
12 >> going to let that be the default,
13 >>
14 > I thought we were talking about a switch to set the filename to use. That
15 > could be set to a default without turning on autounmask-write.
16 >
17 >
18 >> I may as well run ~amd64.
19 >>
20 > That does seem a simpler approach, but this is about unmasking, not just
21 > keywording. autounmask is useful to those running ~arch too.
22 >
23 >
24 >
25 >
26
27 Wouldn't this be like putting package.* back to a file instead of a
28 directory tho? That would seem like one step forward and two steps
29 back. Maybe I am missing something again. I sort of got some "issues"
30 going on around here. :/
31
32 I just sort of like the way autounmask did it. It has its drawbacks to
33 tho. If you unmask something and there is a package in the file that
34 you wouldn't think is related, good luck finding that later on when you
35 have a lot of files in there. Needle in the haystack comes to mind. I
36 guess that is when grep or something comes in to the rescue.
37
38 To many options sometimes. o_O
39
40 Dale
41
42 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>