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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:16:43
Message-Id: 1572382.X1TkjcIXpu@nazgul
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again by Dale
1 On Mon 15 August 2011 15:12:09 Dale did opine thusly:
2 > Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > Do you have autounmask enabled or disabled in your config for
4 > > portage?
5 > >
6 > > That first example you gave strongly indicates you have it
7 > > enabled.
8 > I'm thinking the same thing. It seems to be enabled by default I
9 > think. I know it is here and I didn't do it. It just sort of
10 > appeared one day. I *think* I even asked on here about it.
11
12 You did, and I remember it clearly. I even looked at my own setup and
13 concluded that a recent portage update enabled it by default.
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15 I never had any issues with it as I run unstable so there's nothing to
16 unmask except my -9999 packages which are all unamsked ** already.
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20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com