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 1M8ItZ-0001Qm-AR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 May 2009 18:58:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6360EE0568; Sun, 24 May 2009 18:58:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.147]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26EE5E0568 for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 18:58:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 26so595619eyw.10 for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 11:58:03 -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=XO1m9K86nP5/VIPUi7ChyU7A4ADrOYI0sg5xGurlEgI=; b=Xsud+QIkoRvWvA6wmwsVC3DXydYYlF11EZGpd30aQrPjOsNolRInKiMLqT4UsTeImC rhrbUC8E2+U5vTLJTsDzTKhlysTP6R8QZgudERh2LrGbtILK+ThGlxLo6fxYCwUpKBaF P+LqC3bTGRHlTqBterKH6uJvmvend4hSV01Ro= 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=D6ssfKQBXRe2WlvVJptPz0yXu8jktwB7cfmjMZPbka6Vd63fDoMFvBijhkKSlt5Iw6 7DSWy//RiRhXdFc6fzFo466gMXgzqXcTfSKoFxku7sAZpfOJSEMw5ITbFEyd/NcZ+TCg Wlyj5wYghqOKTkyCPFurA5XnQm1DR2UExnOvE= Received: by 10.210.11.17 with SMTP id 17mr2762768ebk.57.1243191483629; Sun, 24 May 2009 11:58:03 -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 28sm2730778eye.16.2009.05.24.11.58.02 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 24 May 2009 11:58:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 20:56:37 +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> <200905241954.46909.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4A198DB7.6090807@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A198DB7.6090807@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: <200905242056.37129.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: ecd66552-0f47-4962-b513-85142664dabe X-Archives-Hash: f7bc29f5a2180b6344bc2debb99764f5 On Sunday 24 May 2009 20:11:03 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > 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 > > Something like this? > > root@smoker / # ls -al /etc/make.profile > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 Dec 16 22:09 /etc/make.profile -> > /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop/ > root@smoker / # > > I would assume it uses what the make.profile is linked to. Correct? > Thing is, is there some file supported in /etc/ that is user editable? > If not, then it doesn't matter. If a user edits the file in > /usr/portage, it will default back when re-syncing. OK, I see what your question is now. According to 'man 5 portage' you would add it to /etc/portage/profile/packages which you likely have to create yourself -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com