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Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 13:11:03 -0500
From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
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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

:-)  :-)