On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 00:34 +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> 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

When a package name changes, portage changes your mask for you. xfree
was "moved" to xorg-x11.


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