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 1QZQHq-0000no-8T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:28:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 987A61C2FB; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:22:15 +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 542281C2F0 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:22:10 +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 418A980483 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:22:09 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:22:08 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE? Message-ID: <20110622172208.5801138e@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <15413157.QhsxscBRlY@nazgul> References: <2869451.8C6Z2vDv6d@nazgul> <1670223.3B9JZpE7Ee@nazgul> <20110622154440.0425dbe1@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <15413157.QhsxscBRlY@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_/VUN6QW.BfG5U80QcijEHkxR"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7726d31e6d5cbb1d931721b80b068549 --Sig_/VUN6QW.BfG5U80QcijEHkxR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:31:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > autounmask is set by default, you need to explicitly set it to off. =20 > is it invisibly on then? I don't have it in make.conf and it's not in=20 > FEATURES: Apparently so, as it doesn't show up in emerge --info here either. > > > I'm a sysadmin, I have an inherent distrust of all things > > > software and automagic-config-changers are scary things indeed > > > :-) =20 > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > [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 >=20 > Hmmmmmmmmmmm, still sounds like something that should be banned. For=20 > me at least. Too right, we can't have software telling us what needs to be done to install it! What will we use Google for now? --=20 Neil Bothwick Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. --Sig_/VUN6QW.BfG5U80QcijEHkxR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk4CFrAACgkQum4al0N1GQP5UwCfcW0uB+1QMtGAVMIYghuk2cVM GX8AoMbz5CctDgOZxvC/THM5I4RyzwXg =IYxm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/VUN6QW.BfG5U80QcijEHkxR--