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 -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net -- [email protected] mailing list
