Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?

[David Morgan <david.morgan@wadham.oxford.ac.uk>]

On 15:42 Mon 18 Jul     , Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:46:23 +0100, David Morgan wrote:
> 
> > You could remove win32codecs from base/use.mask, try and use it and see
> > if it works since it shouldn't break anything. But each time you did
> > emerge sync it'd get written over.
> 
> Profile changes should be made in /etc/portage/profiles, then they won't
> be overwritten when syncing.
> 

(I think you meant /etc/portage/profile)

I usually go for tempory fixes to see if something works before spending
time finding out the correct solution (I guess that's a result of me
being incredibly lazy, but it's also just easier when you're
investigating something).

I guessed that you might have to use /etc/portage/profile/use.unmask (by
analogy with package.{,un}mask, but apparently the correct thing to do
is to put -win32codecs in /etc/portage/profile/use.mask

Dave

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