From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j430qlI2001041 for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 00:52:48 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DSlea-0006ow-Q6 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 00:52:48 +0000 Received: (qmail 6786 invoked from network); 2 May 2005 20:47:01 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 2 May 2005 20:47:01 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 20:54:26 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <4274ACD1.9020003@gentoo.org> <4276BDF5.5050707@longlandclan.hopto.org> <4276C9B9.90103@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4276C9B9.90103@egr.msu.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505022054.26430.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 13b81483-7b22-4a17-9ebf-f947f417aa64 X-Archives-Hash: 579cdeca19393ec83bf4cf302bcc2a18 On Monday 02 May 2005 08:45 pm, Alec Warner wrote: > The only dish I have is what if a new profile doesn't support what they > are attempting to do? If something is profile masked ( gcc fex ) there > is no way currently for a user to unmask it, even in /etc/portage. yes there is, you just didnt read enough in `man portage` -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list