From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0A903138350 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 16:41:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C58CCE0969; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 16:41:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (mail.digimed.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5090BE0909 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 16:41:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (fenchurch.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 50F7F66559 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:41:03 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:40:56 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dir or file? >> /etc/portage/package.mask Message-ID: <20200419174056.404cc5ec@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20200418175619.yjupjgtmdvi7ahej@solfire> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.5 (GTK+ 2.24.32; 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/YpBS7q1xSa37lSHId_9lwFP"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 X-Archives-Salt: 987875b8-613b-447e-b8a7-24fa4db98abd X-Archives-Hash: 9407c7ebf04016f964281bd59483dfaa --Sig_/YpBS7q1xSa37lSHId_9lwFP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 12:12:02 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > The devs are deprecating the flat-file version of package.*, I > > have been gettings warnings during emerges indicating that they > > all need to be changed to the directory layout. > >=20 > > If you ignore this eventually emerge will stop working. I've > > already taken the few minutes to move all my boxes to the > > directory layout, and split out the packages to individual > > files. You don't have to go that far though, the entries can stay > > in one file under the new directory structure. =20 >=20 > I wonder why they are doing this, I find the single file much easier > to deal with and its easier to make sure I don't have duplicate > entries this way. Horses for courses I suppose. I prefer a separate file for a package and its dependencies. Then if I uninstall that package, I can simply delete the file. eix-test-obsolete should find duplicate entries, although that hasn't been an issue so far. --=20 Neil Bothwick The considered application of terror is also a form of communication. --Sig_/YpBS7q1xSa37lSHId_9lwFP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEE8k9T/rX16EJxEKG692eFu0QSMJgFAl6cfxgACgkQ92eFu0QS MJjSww//Vif7V2lxEg9oW8a1l5Vew9XR1GLZdo7cQcMCowsFtzrrZBJdeZZFtf0Z xwCreBWFiI+myBzBsNptlA+/nbOogqqY6W7vz6AP7l6Cx1wJqU07ic26rOmByZI0 2syoTDRHDFHPWW/n8gboioUHw1T4qIBGSq1R/saPKEepedBwmhJwNrxaXex/knCS V3XJFuVJrBmeMwCUvMRmHMB6VSnzytR3NKkZBPKyhgK1l963gkJp3nh8S3iuEnvM 9I0pmNjHkV/hsOm97i53x4wKlQ7XlNcdckxpXDAL5j8eML7zkT3pbUV+oKX6fRGK gxUCZvtfxdYWYEk1Ng692clNdmLPdfxz6hD05AnP9ctfEbjz0qty0GjB8x49xjNq tkYDNsNvO455sUzfbeBBA+espdcoRS8Y5WAHSITbNh07oSm+bvxjJnEouiQzFyNn xA6fHNhdYNxxLCZ4GEHBxh6Sc9/1ulUxEkkHd7MzCq8x7WgmjmG1QxHSDbPof8Yf mjYLeTWBDT+VRKxwVvjhPrdTaEVurnavOnCNO2xExtGddb5/8A4R/lMnxs2NiCMv gZ3Q6IzF7RAQy6RRw2DgfL+N4VTElGz43SsUdmmB8kbvnyjXHJkczUoZmBLoKQR4 6Yuyytz4c+qh8j/oQzQ4dijEN87pImdNOzTZYWLOmS+vK3rcOOs= =zHV6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/YpBS7q1xSa37lSHId_9lwFP--