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From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@bellsouth.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:30:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607162130.13146.brettholcomb@bellsouth.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44BAE66E.8030605@cs.umn.edu>

Check out /etc/make.conf - that will override some settings.  You aren't 
supposed to mess with the make.profile - it's a defalt that all else is based 
on.

On Sunday July 16 2006 21:22, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there any other solution to the /etc/make.profile/package.provided
> file? As we all know the /usr/portage/ dir gets wiped of custom files on
> every sync. It seems kinda silly that there is a package.provided
> solution but it gets wiped every time, so is there any other way to
> accomplish the same thing on a more permanent term that I am not aware
> of? The portage man page does not suggest anything else.
> Thanks.
> --
> Jeremy Olexa
> (olexa@cs.umn.edu)
> Office: EE/CS 1-201
> CS/IT Systems Staff
> University of Minnesota

-- 

Brett I. Holcomb
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-17  1:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-17  1:22 [gentoo-user] package.provided Jeremy Olexa
2006-07-17  1:30 ` Brett I. Holcomb [this message]
2006-07-17  1:37 ` Willie Wong
2006-07-17  7:43 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-18  4:28   ` Jeremy Olexa
2006-07-18  5:37     ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-07-21  3:35       ` proper use of package.provided (was: Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided) Jeremy Olexa
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-08 15:23 [gentoo-user] package.provided Daniel Iliev
2007-05-08 15:39 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2007-05-08 18:10   ` Daniel Iliev
2007-05-08 20:13 ` Zac Medico
2007-05-09  9:22   ` Daniel Iliev
2007-05-09 13:53     ` Iain Buchanan
2007-05-09 14:48       ` Neil Bothwick
2008-01-08 12:35 Daniel Iliev
2008-01-08 13:07 ` Renat Golubchyk
2008-01-08 13:11 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-01-08 15:18   ` Daniel Iliev
2008-01-08 18:23     ` Alan McKinnon
2008-01-08 21:20       ` Daniel Iliev
2008-01-08 21:51         ` Dmitry S. Makovey
2008-01-08 21:54         ` Neil Bothwick
2008-01-08 21:40 ` Kenneth Prugh
2008-01-08 21:53 ` Neil Bothwick

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