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* Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.use/java
  @ 2010-11-18 19:36 99%   ` Mike Edenfield
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From: Mike Edenfield @ 2010-11-18 19:36 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On 11/18/2010 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 17:52 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mike 
> Edenfield did opine thusly:
> 
>> Is there something special about the file name
>> /etc/portage/package.use/java ?  For some reason, if I create this file
>> to hold USE flags for my java packages, bash tries to source it when I
>> log in.  As far as I can tell this is the only filename that gets this
>> wierd treatment:

> grep -r is your friend here. Most likely it happened when you typed an 
> "echo > file" type command sometime and botched the redirectors

Huh.  Found it, but now I'm even more confused than before:

platypus ~ # ls -alF /etc/bash_completion.d/java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Nov 16 08:18 /etc/bash_completion.d/java ->
//etc/portage/package.use/java

I'm pretty sure I didn't actually make that softlink myself, and I have
no idea where it came from:

platypus ~ # equery belongs /etc/bash_completion.d/java
 * Searching for /etc/bash_completion.d/java ...
platypus ~ #

--Mike



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