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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How is /etc/portage/env supposed to work?
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 19:35:36 +0300
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On 20/10/15 17:26, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 10/20/2015 10:04 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> I'm following the documentation here:
>>
>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Portage/Advanced#Using_.2Fetc.2Fportage.2Fenv
>>
>> to hook into the postinst phase of an ebuild.
>
> Deja vu:
>
>    http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devhelp/151
>
>    https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388781
>
> There's two separate uses for /etc/portage/env -- one of them will get
> you the make.conf parser (when you list the file in
> /etc/portage/package.env) and the other that will get you the bash
> parser (when you put the file at /etc/portage/env/${CATEGORY}/${PN}).
>
> The whole thing is confusing. If you ever get it working please put a
> decent example on the wiki because I remember spending hours trying to
> do the same thing.

As suggested by Neil, putting the code in /etc/portage/env/app-misc/mc 
worked.

Will later write an example in the Wiki.