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 1M8HwW-0005MI-Oc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 May 2009 17:57:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BE7FE03E6; Sun, 24 May 2009 17:56:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f165.google.com (mail-ew0-f165.google.com [209.85.219.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6165EE03E6 for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 17:56:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so2569850ewy.34 for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 10:56:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=5xirq2/0E5NBa8vxBSGmxaukHelPzYsyo1mN8CbIDq4=; b=Eci7WANgFzy7DqfKXl1qKyzR5cB/EYhpGEeS12aoy+32QjAHwt4rl6l3dybLzhw+y2 bS7lcpdPMnC0CQ8aaAeymQazz3K9l4c4VpVpVTbozb93oW/rONbXLMM4umqGa5MT5E8z hLFTmKIBg2A9IMHD+Lo72Lw2HWbZQCnHBAaAo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=AJloifLH5oUe8Mg0T/e6C2kbxoZWWirBahWRdfpix4JByFtvoopsNZ4VTpJzfJWJaB tD71zcS6M5bcAxfXTePeWZDMx4jLvLFzAQ7o8Ym5YpZ6q6wv78jOUxW+JOUtb8d0PEtH /bV4UhWJRCtiye0sqQBrnen5AJmh4u4AQjhe4= Received: by 10.211.199.13 with SMTP id b13mr3760156ebq.88.1243187774599; Sun, 24 May 2009 10:56:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-19-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm4593696eyg.44.2009.05.24.10.56.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 24 May 2009 10:56:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 19:54:46 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.2.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <983967.82330.qm@web51306.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <200905241822.05300.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4A198353.2050105@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A198353.2050105@gmail.com> 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-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905241954.46909.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 824e3fdf-a8e8-4b04-8ed7-b7933e75cfbb X-Archives-Hash: bd5d485238567dff781dd0aa6e98194f On Sunday 24 May 2009 19:26:43 Dale wrote: > Also, is this the file that contains the system set? > > /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages > > If so, python is commented out as is a few others. Is there a way to > add files to something in /etc that emerge would consider in addition to > this file? In other words, if a user is using portage, is there a place > that they could set this in /etc so that it overrides the fact it is > missing in the system set? Just add python and other missing packages > to the file and we can carry on. I assume adding it to world would not > do any good with buildsyspkg enabled? profiles are cascading and support multiple inheritance (parent files can contain several entries). So, you have to run find /usr/portage/profiles -name packages to find them all, and apply brain power to find the few that actually apply to you -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com