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 1M8IAA-0008AG-4G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 May 2009 18:11:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B7F0E055C; Sun, 24 May 2009 18:11:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.157]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1DA4E055C for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 18:11:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 36so10037466yxh.46 for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 11:11:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=5XZ3eTQDMk3K49bi30IaaY+Pp3pyn6ho40fDGFikZ+s=; b=ZbR0JWbX2T7jLZfELfDvuFAvoGD/fONBTkJ1/tD5zySC0Wb12uTtErULqHr9kH7yao N6bgIoyEJduv3jYBLnb1NQ1r7o2Fi37Kvch6BMur50G6q4DIwsAYUlb6ouT7heN8fLnt FoCr2SpDEq5iSJmRL3d+b1llm30W02Din0fhY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fYet9oM/2GZWl+o/N/q6JjX78xHnaxhC267TNlS4QyJx+geCtyQtv+eQcfb6KiEIlo rJdqBrXX17poQTi6kc13RwVRkStBcGOQ+vX5nHOON5st2gIS0DAAnCDvPH1jbs1H8owP 0ANc6px6hkHosM3YKw07eXpWx7pvSwu1kCndA= Received: by 10.90.73.17 with SMTP id v17mr5486674aga.37.1243188668784; Sun, 24 May 2009 11:11:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.164.180? (r164h180.dixie-net.com [64.89.164.180]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 40sm12671352aga.23.2009.05.24.11.11.06 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 24 May 2009 11:11:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A198DB7.6090807@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 13:11:03 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090519 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python References: <983967.82330.qm@web51306.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <200905241822.05300.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4A198353.2050105@gmail.com> <200905241954.46909.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200905241954.46909.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 23b7fb3b-7e7c-4ecb-b6b9-a0b493063657 X-Archives-Hash: 07e78c7e1134b04e4aa4256fb69d9d65 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 24 May 2009 19:26:43 Dale wrote: > >> Also, is this the file that contains the system set? >> >> /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages >> >> If so, python is commented out as is a few others. Is there a way to >> add files to something in /etc that emerge would consider in addition to >> this file? In other words, if a user is using portage, is there a place >> that they could set this in /etc so that it overrides the fact it is >> missing in the system set? Just add python and other missing packages >> to the file and we can carry on. I assume adding it to world would not >> do any good with buildsyspkg enabled? >> > > profiles are cascading and support multiple inheritance (parent files can > contain several entries). So, you have to run > > find /usr/portage/profiles -name packages > > to find them all, and apply brain power to find the few that actually apply to > you > > > Something like this? root@smoker / # ls -al /etc/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 Dec 16 22:09 /etc/make.profile -> /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop/ root@smoker / # I would assume it uses what the make.profile is linked to. Correct? Thing is, is there some file supported in /etc/ that is user editable? If not, then it doesn't matter. If a user edits the file in /usr/portage, it will default back when re-syncing. Dale :-) :-)