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On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:00:35 +0200, Arttu V. wrote: |
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> > Let me explain, I want to unmask xorg-server, and every time I try to |
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> > update, it complains about one package, I unmask it, then it complains |
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> > about other, and so on... |
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> > so, is there a good/correct way for doing so? |
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> You might want to try and emerge autounmask: |
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> http://www.iml.ece.mcgill.ca/~stephan/autounmask |
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> It's not necessarily the "right" way, and I don't use it, but |
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> apparently some (many?) do. |
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It's a right way. It works better if /etc/portage.unmask is a directory, |
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as it then creates a separate file for each set of packages you unmask, |
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with a descriptive name. This simplifies managing or removing the |
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unmasking. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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