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From: Robert Bridge <robert@robbieab.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:47:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081028214720.0558341f@rabbit.robbieab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38af3d670810281434h3d4b896x26f594835c60e7a1@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:34:31 -0200
"Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <please.no.spam.here@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Run autounmask, it creates a new file
> > in /etc/portage/package.unmask/
> >
> > Run a quick awk on it to get it into shape
> >
> > Move file to /etc/portage/package.mask/
> >
> > Problem solved in a neat elegant insightful way.
> 
> awk? I assumed it was an obsolete language included for compatibility.
> People should use Python, Perl, or sed's "s" command. Am I wrong?

Yes. You are wrong.

Awk is a useful tool, if you know it. It's just less people bother
learning it these days.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-28 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-28 17:07 [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax? Helmut Jarausch
2008-10-28 17:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-10-28 17:22 ` Andrey Vul
2008-10-28 17:39   ` Ricardo Saffi Marques
2008-10-28 17:49     ` Neil Bothwick
2008-10-28 20:29     ` Andrey Vul
2008-10-28 21:01       ` Alan McKinnon
2008-10-28 21:34         ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2008-10-28 21:47           ` Robert Bridge [this message]
2008-10-28 21:56           ` Alan McKinnon
2008-10-28 22:17             ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2008-10-28 22:41               ` Alan McKinnon
2008-10-28 22:55                 ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2008-10-29  7:16                   ` Alan McKinnon
2008-10-29 14:16                     ` Andrey Vul
2008-10-29 20:13                     ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2008-10-30 10:46                       ` Dirk Uys
2008-10-30 11:00                         ` Dirk Uys
2008-10-30 18:54                           ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2008-10-30 19:11                             ` Albert Hopkins
2008-10-31  8:02                               ` Dirk Uys
2008-10-31  9:54                               ` [gentoo-user] OT: Python (was: package.keywords syntax?) Matthias Bethke
2008-10-31 10:31                                 ` Heiko Wundram
2008-10-30 19:12                         ` [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax? Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2008-10-31  7:57                           ` Dirk Uys

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