From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuXGL-00065L-AD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:10:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6IF8pTO005907; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:08:51 GMT Received: from smtp801.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (smtp801.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.12.138]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6IF5O3H011420 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:05:24 GMT Received: (qmail 68131 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2005 15:06:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wadham.oxford.ac.uk) (jmconveyors@86.133.24.227 with plain) by smtp801.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Jul 2005 15:06:13 -0000 Received: by wadham.oxford.ac.uk (nbSMTP-0.99) for uid 1000 david.morgan@wadham.oxford.ac.uk; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:01:10 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:01:10 +0100 From: David Morgan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots? Message-ID: <20050718150110.GA20707@valinor.dynalias.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <1121159554.15192.65.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <20050712112918.732fb0d3@mating-tux.renatik.de> <1121163149.15192.90.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <20050712104739.GA11409@valinor.dynalias.net> <1121223048.15192.123.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <20050713094623.GA11444@valinor.dynalias.net> <20050718154233.4dd8611a@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050718154233.4dd8611a@hactar.digimed.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 974128bb-eae0-4777-9b1d-72dfdb93628b X-Archives-Hash: fae9ee5c4ac1c2d1fd7fe8b837a35aa6 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list