From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ICobz-0005H9-QG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:29:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6N3Rl2i012688; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:27:47 GMT Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.140.230]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6N3NGSH007867 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:23:17 GMT Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4578d5e5.dyn.optonline.net [69.120.213.229]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l6N3NG0e029447 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:23:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id DD11D19D92E; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:23:10 -0400 (EDT) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag References: <200707220927.09638.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> From: Allan Gottlieb Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:23:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200707220927.09638.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> (Dirk Heinrichs's message of "Sun\, 22 Jul 2007 09\:27\:09 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: 5207beca-28c5-4459-8711-4a8c56e2ffd3 X-Archives-Hash: b45ee4123d609bdd7153f3a1f7c9ba2d At Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:27:09 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2007 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: > >> echo "dev-java/blackdown-jre nsplugin" >> >> /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask echo "dev-java/blackdown-jdk nsplugin" >> >> /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask echo "dev-java/blackdown-java3d-bin >> nsplugin" >> /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask > > No. /etc/make.profile is a softlink into the portage tree. What ever you > change there will be overwritten when you sync the tree next time. The > correct file is /etc/portage/package.use and the entry should be > > dev-java/blackdown-jdk -nsplugin > > And, this is only needed when you use this package. As long as it's not > installed on your system, you don't even need to worry. Thank you. I was fooled by "man portage", but I should have know better. That is, I knew full well, but forgot, that /usr/profile is temporary and that user changes should be make in /etc/portage. Should I file a bug with proposed extra words for the beginning of the "portage" man page? thanks again, allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list