[gentoo-user] Re: Just when is portage/bashrc sourced?

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org>]

On 2017-11-27 07:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote:

> > That came up in the OP, but the question was about doing it for
> > selected ebuilds, which is exactly what this must shorter option
> > does.
> 
> You should update the wiki, your way is better.

Ah, now I see why I was so confused.  the /etc/portage/env/ directory
serves two purposes, only distantly related:

- houses the environment files, referenced from /etc/portage/package.env
  These can apparantly contain only variable settings.

- houses the package specific bashrc files, as $CATEGORY/$PN and so on.
  These can contain hook definitions and perhaps even more general shell
  code.

Both man portage(5) and the wiki treat the two cases separately, so the
fact that the ultimate data files are in the same directory is lost on
the careless reader (such as me).  Michael or Neil, if you do edit the
docs please improve this aspect.

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