On Wednesday 22 June 2011 10:40:40 Dale did opine thusly: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:27:11 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> That's because those are global flags. If you set > >>> package-specific flags in /etc/portage/package.use, > >>> eix-test-obsolete will tell you when entries can be > >>> removed. > >> > >> But when something new comes out, I usually want to add it for > >> all the packages. I have a few things listed in package.use > >> but I don't want to clutter the crap out of it and then have > >> two files that needs cleaning. > > > > Use a directory for package.use, it makes it far easier to > > manage. All of /etc/portage/package.* are directories here. > > I have done that for package.keywords and unmask. In ways it is > easier but in ways, it is a nightmare. If something is unmasked, I > have to go find the file that unmasked it. I have several since I > use autounmask for most of it. Then add in that the new autounmask > part of emerge seems to pick a random file to add too. At that > point, not much makes sense anymore.
grep is your very very good friend -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
