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 1QZOgu-00084l-JY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:46:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A5DF1C18D; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:44:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6CCB1C18D for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:44:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D4D2C80483 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:44:40 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:44:40 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE? Message-ID: <20110622154440.0425dbe1@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1670223.3B9JZpE7Ee@nazgul> References: <2869451.8C6Z2vDv6d@nazgul> <1680906.2ZX3ghURak@nazgul> <1670223.3B9JZpE7Ee@nazgul> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9cvs27 (GTK+ 2.24.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/tH45EqeCOs2GgSyLjZ+=v9d"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1a3b10a32f701e9a40b1f00e4a52ef54 --Sig_/tH45EqeCOs2GgSyLjZ+=v9d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same thing) autounmask is set by default, you need to explicitly set it to off. > I'm a sysadmin, I have an inherent distrust of all things software and=20 > automagic-config-changers are scary things indeed :-) autounmask doesn't actually do anything, it only tells you what should be added to /etc/portage/package.use. You need to use autounmask-write for that, which doesn't play nicely if package.use is a directory[1]. However, it does respect the --ask flag, making it safe for all but the most paranoid BOFHs (no names Alan) to use. [1] It writes to a file of its choosing in that directory, with no regard to its relevance. I'd prefer it to write to something like packagename.autounmasked or even just packagename as it adds a comment to the file to explain the content. --=20 Neil Bothwick Monday is the root of all evil! --Sig_/tH45EqeCOs2GgSyLjZ+=v9d Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk4B/9gACgkQum4al0N1GQPZHACg23RCvMqqbwzb7Fa5kPJnUOml 2gkAnRzRZzCA9nF5sTaPy2nMPx6jlf+Q =dOID -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/tH45EqeCOs2GgSyLjZ+=v9d--