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 1QZt3D-0004nW-CB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:11:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F3CE81C175; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:04:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 882351C175 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:04:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5245BDEC88 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:04:16 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sCqCwBTyD1R9 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:04:16 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24F0FDEC86 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:04:16 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now? Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:04:15 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4E0167C4.9080100@gmail.com> <201106232227.54084.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20110623225716.634306c5@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110623225716.634306c5@digimed.co.uk> 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-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106240004.15416.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 189b05dcf2b9db6d534e3508cc73d3c3 On Thursday 23 June 2011 22:57:16 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:27:53 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > So is giving the files sensible names :) > > > > > > That was what I liked about autounmask, the tree version not the > > > portage one. It gave them some names at least. Still felt like > > > looking for a needle in a haystack sometimes tho. > > > > I'm with you, Dale. I have no /etc/portage/package.* directories here > > on this amd64 box - I just keep entries in alphabetical order in single > > files. I find it easier. > > That doesn't help with linked packages with different names. If foo > requires libbar with USE="snafu", I put it in/etc/portage/package.use/foo > Then if I remove foo, I remove the use file. If they were alphabetically > sorted, and therefore separate, in one file, I wouldn't make the > connection. An occasional use of eix-test-obsolete does well enough for me. I ran it just now after several months, and it found one redundant entry in package.keywords (for libreoffice). > And I don't have to worry about sorting package.use every time I make a > change, ls does that for me. I don't sort it; I put entries in in the right order to start with. An occasional entry put there by autounmask is demarcated anyway, so they're easy to see, and to delete when no longer needed. It works well for me, but we all have different foibles. -- Rgds Peter