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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Daniel Pielmeier <billie@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:45:21
Message-Id: 1444116.ka3gdOcJZy@nazgul
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE? by Daniel Pielmeier
1 On Thursday 23 June 2011 13:31:10 Daniel Pielmeier did opine thusly:
2 > 2011/6/22 Sebastian Beßler <sebastian@××××××××××××.de>:
3 > > Am 22.06.2011 17:31, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
4 > >> On Wednesday 22 June 2011 15:44:40 Neil Bothwick did opine
5 thusly:
6 > >>> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
7 > >>>> It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same
8 > >>>> thing)
9 > >>>
10 > >>> autounmask is set by default, you need to explicitly set it
11 > >>> to off.
12 > >>
13 > >> So,
14 > >>
15 > >> is it invisibly on then? I don't have it in make.conf and it's
16 > >> not in
17 > >
18 > >> FEATURES:
19 > > It is not a FEATURE its a default option
20 > >
21 > > NOTE: This --autounmask behavior can be disabled by setting
22 > > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n" in make.conf.
23 >
24 > Sorry for the confusion by mixing up FEATURES with
25 > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS. I did not have a Gentoo machine at hand when
26 > writing this.
27
28 No worries, I had also assumed it was a FEATURE.
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30 I'd read about it in Changelogs long before you posted but paid little
31 attention - it's something I wouldn't use, so could ignore it.
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35 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com