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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where to get /etc/make.conf.example
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:58:40
Message-Id: 200911061657.40085.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Where to get /etc/make.conf.example by Harry Putnam
1 On Friday 06 November 2009 16:52:51 Harry Putnam wrote:
2 > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes:
3 > > On Friday 06 November 2009 16:43:32 Harry Putnam wrote:
4 > >> Elog is not sending me anything and I wanted to look at
5 > >> /etc/make.conf.example but turns out I don't have one.
6 > >>
7 > >> I thought I might find one in whatever package includes
8 > >
9 > > /etc/make.conf
10 > >
11 > >> but `equery belongs /etc/make.conf' comes up dry.
12 > >>
13 > >> Is there some way to get one, short of downloading a stage3 and
14 > >> unpacking it?
15 > >
16 > > $ locate make.conf.example
17 > > /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example
18 >
19 > ouch... didn't it used to be in /etc?
20
21 Yes, I remember something like that. It likely got moved around - it's
22 an example only so shouldn't be config-protected
23
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25 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com