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On Tuesday 13 January 2004 23:53, Jimmy Rosen wrote:
> I've been using gentoo for a while now. Every time I have updated
> baselayout it has overwritten the make.conf file automatically with a
> default file. I've tried protecting it but to no avail.
>
> Is this as it should be?
>
> I'm asking because it's about time for another system update
> emerge -pu system
> and that will bring in another update to baselayout, as well as a whole
> bunch of other stuff.
> As baselayout is somewhere in the middle of this, and before portage itself
> is updated and emerge-ing the system is restarted, the make.conf file will
> be overwritten in the middle of my system update. Now, since that will
> overwrite my use flags, does it mean the rest of the update will be
> compiled with the default use and make flags?
>
> I'd be glad if someone could enlighten me on this particular pickle.

I'm not sure if you are the same person that I met in irc, but the problem 
sounds like CONFIG_PROTECT is set incorrectly. If you run "emerge info", does 
CONFIG_PROTECT include /etc ? During the installation, the docs say to export 
CONFIG_PROTECT="-*". However, this should be done at install time only and 
should not be in /etc/make.conf (unless you want the behaviour that you have 
described above).

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Regards,
Jason Stubbs
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