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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:30:52
Message-Id: 48E94010.5060706@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner! by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 >
3 > It basically adds a bunch of packages to /etc/portage/packages.unmask
4 > and /etc/portage/packages.keywords, bracketed by start/end comments so
5 > you can remove them. It's a quick and easy way of emerging something
6 > with a lot of masked dependencies, like kde-meta:4.
7 >
8 > I used it the last time I tried KDE4 and it did just as was expected,
9 > except is added =cat/pkg-vers, which I changed to ~cat/pkg/vers so I
10 > could pick up and fixes.
11 >
12 >
13 >
14
15 You can tell it not to put versions tho.
16
17 root@smoker / # autounmask -h
18
19 autounmask version 0.21 (using PortageXS-0.02.07 and portage-2.2_rc11)
20
21 Usage:
22 autounmask category/package-version
23
24 Options:
25 -h, --help : Show this help.
26 -p, --pretend : Just pretend.
27 -n, --noversions : Do not append version when unmasking a
28 package. <<<<--------------
29
30 root@smoker / #
31
32 Just use the -n option. I haven't used that that I can recall tho. Now
33 watch some guru come up with a script to remove them. ;-)
34
35 Dale
36
37 :-) :-)

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner! Daniel Johnson <johnmon2@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner! Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>