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(r164h27.dixie-net.com [64.89.164.27]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l19sm11773075fgb.16.2009.06.22.23.51.49 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:51:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A407B81.7060702@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:51:45 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090529 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] Re: package.keywords References: <20090622231743.1224f522@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4A4010FC.5050609@gmail.com> <200906230842.12270.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200906230842.12270.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8b95e36b-8705-4429-95d1-521915b0c1ac X-Archives-Hash: edbc56d38d76a5b59766bbdd5fe7815b Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 23 June 2009 01:17:16 Dale wrote: > >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:51:31 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: >>> >>>> I'm mostly running stable with exceptions being enabled >>>> via the /etc/portage file structure. Usually it's small, >>>> but now with kde4, BLOAT is my modus operandi, >>>> not by choice...... >>>> >>> It's easier to manage if you make portage.keywords a directory then put >>> the actual packages in files within that directory. That way you can >>> separate the files needed to run KDE4 from any other group of packages. >>> >>> All package.* files in /etc/portage can be replaced a directories, then >>> all the files in that directory are considered as a whole. >>> >> For some reason, my light bulb has still not came on so here comes some >> questions. I would create /etc/portage/package.keywords then inside >> that another directory or a set of files? Say, one named KDE4 to put >> all of KDE4 and it's little friends and then another for some other set >> of packages? Is this sort of like the sets thing which I am still >> curious about? >> > > Yes, precisely. > > If package.keywords is a single file, then all your keywords must be in that > file. This is difficult for ebuilds to manipulate, and difficult for you to > edit too. If I send you my list of KDE keywords, you have to copy paste the > lot into a file and put comments at the start and end so you know what it all > is. > > If package.keywords is a directory, then portage/ebuilds/tools/you can add and > remove entire files easily, leaving everything else untouched. > > >> Right now, package.keywords and friends are files not directories. >> Maybe tarring up your portage directory and emailing me off list would >> help? I need a light bulb moment here. :/ >> > > It's easy. As root: > > cd /etc/portage > mv package.keywords package.keywords~ > mkdir package.keywords > mv package.keywords~ package.keywords/package.keywords > > The destination file in the last command can be named anything you like. > > Now, if you install enlightenment, create and edit > /etc/portage/package.keywords/e17 > If I send you my KDE keywords as an attachment, right-click, Save As, > /etc/portage/package.keywords/kde4 > > Done, sorted. > > This sounds cool. I don't unmask a lot or anything but something like KDE 4 comes to mind for this. That requires a lot of work. I'm going to have to check to see if autounmask supports this too. Thanks much. Light bulb is glowing a bit now. o_O Dale :-) :-)