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From: Matan Peled <chaosite@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:26:15
Message-Id: 434EC1B5.1020903@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables by Jorge Almeida
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4 Jorge Almeida wrote:
5 > On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote:
6 >
7 >>Afaik, they are set by /etc/make/profile/make.defaults, and
8 >>overridden/added to
9 >>globally by /etc/make.conf, and individually by /etc/portage/package.use.
10 >>
11 >
12 > The handbook
13 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=2
14 > says they come from base, default-linux, default-linux/x86 and
15 > default-linux/x86/2004.3 (as an example). default-linux is empty (which
16 > is not confusing, as it may not be empty in the future) but USE settings
17 > in default-linux/x86 are identical with
18 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1/ (meaning the file
19 > make.defaults in both directories). But are they identical _always_? The
20 > latter directory is the target of the symlink
21 > /etc/make/profile, but what about the former?
22
23 They are cascading.
24
25 AFAIK, if your symlink points to default-linux/x86/2005.1, you'll also pull in
26 everything in default-linux/x86 and default-linux.
27
28 So why are they identical ... ? Good question.
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