Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge -uD world

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:04:27 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> I do not, have never, and likely will never, trust this beast.
>>>>
>>>> vi + eyeballs is my preferred tool :-)
>>>>
>>
>> You're not supposed to trust it. It gives a starting point for ${EDITOR}
>> and eyeballs.
>>
>>
>>> vi ?  LOL  I have used autounmask and so far it has not broke anything.
>>> I also like the way it separates what it adds from what was already
>>> there.  It puts little separators in there so you can easily remove the
>>> lines it added.
>>>
>>
>> If /etc/portage/packages.{unmask,keywords} are directories, it puts its
>> entries in a separate file, which is even easier to work with.
>>
>>
>>
>
> I really need to change over to the directory method.  That just sounds
> soooo cool.  Autounmask creating a new file makes it even better.
>
> Thanks for that tip.

For things like the KDE overlay it's almost required to do it that way
if you want to keep your sanity. You can just make a symlink to the
unmask and keywords files in the overlay so it automagically is
updated when you re-sync it :)