From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QZPnv-00068c-32 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:57:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C84F1C297; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:55:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FCEE1C297 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:55:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyh5 with SMTP id 5so331960eyh.40 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:55:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type; bh=vf0777eJUCIhRg3b06X36c2L9zOBsmzKoMc6QUR5+1M=; b=hiZdyeIG9f+dWsNwShr2sAtgeLjfOhDjbx3/sSkeBM5neV9O4US0lRxFryyoRKPPUZ a3d7+Db64yhBF17qP9yG8ujveFf4Qr0xmPi9s3s/Ll0xIFHqz7aAYCZLoyROcDOEYSD7 aP7glQXzL4Du07x5a+twAcLgdjH9Z70TocIug= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; b=Mdk5kpNX2I2s3QxK6uGbFrdkc6iAzDktum2qwTbw1g0aRwXVYAdaVLwJ56kpGWB/QX 2WmTVQFfJCQGr1N0Ey6UUsY8thLFSBNvySVRwCfg4Z/onYvEhmKQ7RzMuttEGtjVkZh5 6YKuo9fWSSO1QX/CsfBYJ1LeRIRLpjS9/ior0= Received: by 10.14.28.16 with SMTP id f16mr686271eea.176.1308758156442; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:55:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-183-215.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.183.215]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a45sm579057eec.9.2011.06.22.08.55.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:55:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Dale Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now? Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:54:49 +0200 Message-ID: <1405827.FldFBmcZps@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.6.0 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4E020CF8.7040405@gmail.com> References: <4E0167C4.9080100@gmail.com> <20110622154730.5f6ca4f0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4E020CF8.7040405@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 948a7d4f2e894e1297886250f2ca20df On Wednesday 22 June 2011 10:40:40 Dale did opine thusly: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:27:11 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> That's because those are global flags. If you set > >>> package-specific flags in /etc/portage/package.use, > >>> eix-test-obsolete will tell you when entries can be > >>> removed. > >> > >> But when something new comes out, I usually want to add it for > >> all the packages. I have a few things listed in package.use > >> but I don't want to clutter the crap out of it and then have > >> two files that needs cleaning. > > > > Use a directory for package.use, it makes it far easier to > > manage. All of /etc/portage/package.* are directories here. > > I have done that for package.keywords and unmask. In ways it is > easier but in ways, it is a nightmare. If something is unmasked, I > have to go find the file that unmasked it. I have several since I > use autounmask for most of it. Then add in that the new autounmask > part of emerge seems to pick a random file to add too. At that > point, not much makes sense anymore. grep is your very very good friend -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com