From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B4241389F5 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2015 15:40:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A56FE0982; Thu, 2 Apr 2015 15:40:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 66549E089D for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2015 15:40:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YdhDw-0003az-8e for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2015 17:40:04 +0200 Received: from 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net ([67.130.15.94]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Apr 2015 17:40:04 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Apr 2015 17:40:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: This nite's switch to "full multilib" Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 15:37:26 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <5517CCCC.90800@seismic.de> <551881EA.7040705@gmail.com> <5519103D.8020200@xunil.at> <201503301023.30797.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <551919CF.70200@gmail.com> <55191F2F.4070906@xunil.at> <55192205.4060702@gmail.com> <5519302F.5070906@gmail.com> <20150401192842.0c50d878@amit.mysel> <551CC8C9.1070902@darkmetatron.de> <20150402072101.341cbec3@amit.mysel> <20150402094110.11e21cf3@digimed.co.uk> <20150402112933.0000434a@tightmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: 2a892e7b-1b98-454d-ac62-213f1319a831 X-Archives-Hash: 9152b8842c4da59e71a3053bb5cf87f6 On 2015-04-02, Róbert Čerňanský wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 09:41:10 +0100 > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 07:21:01 +0200, Róbert Čerňanský wrote: >> >> > Besides there is such database now - it is your (abused) >> > package.use! You have to manually add entries to it and I do not >> > know any database slower than human typing to a text file ;-) >> > (There is autounmask option of course but then you allow portage to >> > mess with your files which is not a good thing.) >> >> Portage doesn't change your package.use file, it creates a new one >> using the standard CONFIG_PROTECT process. Then you use etc-update or >> similar to view and verify the changes. > > What I am trying to tell is that portage manages its stuff (USE > dependencies), through you, in your configuration files. It is nice > that it does not overwrite them directly without asking ;-) but in the > end the content ends up there one way or other. Portage should have > its own internal database for USE deps and manage it like it manages db > of standard package dependencies. I prefer it this way. I do not want all the nice easy-to read/edit configuration stuff in /etc/portage encrypted some Windows Registry break-alike. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Were these parsnips at CORRECTLY MARINATED in gmail.com TACO SAUCE?