On Saturday 15 January 2005 00:25, Alec wrote:
>
> Well from a user point of view, those are my files, not portages.  You
> don't mess with /etc/portage/profile or /etc/make.conf.  I remember
> seeing a bug filed where someone had masked xfree and portage rewrote
> his use file to have xorg there instead.  He wasn't too happy to have
> that happen ( and wondered wtf it was since he didn't recall a message
> telling him that portage had fixed his profile ).  I wasn't particularly
> glad to see that happen either.  You generally don't want portage to be
> touching stuff like that ( CONFIG_PROTECT it by default perhaps. )
> otherwise I could potentially file bugs in portage for doing dumb crap
> to my profile settings.  Why does portage have to 'automagically' fix
> things like that?

Happened to me too indeed. I masked xfree to be sure, but was suggested to 
change it into xorg by dispatch-conf

Paul

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