Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory

[Fernando Rodriguez]

On Tuesday, September 01, 2015 11:29:42 PM Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 15:26:10 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
>
> > Also one exception to the directory naming convention is the keywords
> > file. The file was package.accept_keywords but the directory is
> > package.keywords.
>
> The name was changed from package.keywords to package.accept_keywords to
> match the variable name in make.conf. Either can be a directory, there's
> even an example in the portage man page of a directory with the new name.

I guess crossdev hasn't caught up to that change (at least the stable one). It 
only uses the package.keywords directory.

> > I always tought autounmask would write
> > to the original package.* filename (since cross-* comes before
> > package.*) until I saw Alan's reply.
>
> Portage treats all the files in the directory as a single file, in
> lexical order. If it's a file, portage adds auto-unmask entries to the
> end ot make sure they are not counteracted by something else in the file.
> If you use a directory, portage adds the changes to the end of the last
> file for the same reason. As with many things, I though portage was doing
> the wrong thing by adding to the "wrong" file, until I realised just
> what it was doing and why. See the section on -autounmask-write
> in man emerge.

-- 
Fernando Rodriguez