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 1QZPT9-0003mP-LP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:35:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C16D51C22F; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:32:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70BEB1C252 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:32:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so320988ewy.40 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:32:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type; bh=QyU/jf8nivvX+ZDKpWiI5ngw68Wgvco94qhPdo9gjGc=; b=Jq68jtyavcPnuvpFADQDAIWlt8E4rrFApxkUy9g0gGxq5cEE0w07zdvRE82a08zgeR rFGOD0i4988uNOTGhNyH+otJwyyvoR2JhWilHv8skQF8W1AoHXvraTvHWAwafke+/Kwj 9lt6EAvWtn97Xtd3DSEBAmVMUigcOyJEtacQU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; b=ixZvG0O0SETZLC/T8pWJJrBsSQv0juLP/qL37Q4RSg5bnTteyomismzKEsGalBgTX5 Z/U4YaLjowY4X2ARhmdFuR8jvuhU5L7r1bCFgug/gE28hvXMD6/G1hFMnBKjAD4EZGlL eBcyeBZWo84AtNGGjMG8ov3NjaZmUjkBX3+ec= Received: by 10.14.52.65 with SMTP id d41mr713330eec.85.1308756764606; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:32:44 -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 y6sm565188eem.4.2011.06.22.08.32.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:32:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE? Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:31:40 +0200 Message-ID: <15413157.QhsxscBRlY@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.6.0 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20110622154440.0425dbe1@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <2869451.8C6Z2vDv6d@nazgul> <1670223.3B9JZpE7Ee@nazgul> <20110622154440.0425dbe1@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> 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: c06fd0a13da04dbeaad6fe0fb10087a1 On Wednesday 22 June 2011 15:44:40 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same thing) > > autounmask is set by default, you need to explicitly set it to off. So, is it invisibly on then? I don't have it in make.conf and it's not in FEATURES: $ emerge --info | grep FEATURES FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildsyspkg collision-protect distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" > > > I'm a sysadmin, I have an inherent distrust of all things > > software and automagic-config-changers are scary things indeed > > :-) > > autounmask doesn't actually do anything, it only tells you what > should be added to /etc/portage/package.use. You need to use > autounmask-write for that, which doesn't play nicely if package.use > is a directory[1]. However, it does respect the --ask flag, making > it safe for all but the most paranoid BOFHs (no names Alan) to use. > > [1] It writes to a file of its choosing in that directory, with no > regard to its relevance. I'd prefer it to write to something like > packagename.autounmasked or even just packagename as it adds a > comment to the file to explain the content. Hmmmmmmmmmmm, still sounds like something that should be banned. For me at least. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com