Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libxml2 conflicts

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 12:51:07 -0600, »Q« wrote:

> > I use a directory for package.use, then autounmask puts its entries in
> > the last file in there, so I have a file called zzz-autounmask. It's
> > pretty easy to clean up, just delete/move it and run emerge -u @world
> > again and it will be repopulated with any settings that are still
> > needed.  
> 
> Thanks for that.  I haven't been using autounmask, partly because I
> didn't think it could handle package.* a directories.  (Maybe I was
> wrong all along or maybe when autounmask debuted I was right;  doesn't
> matter now.)

Directories have always worked with automask because portage translates
the contents to a single file anyway. The only thng you have to be
careful of is file naming, because automask always adds ot the end of
package.use, which means it modifies the last file.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If you can't be kind, be vague.

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