On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 16:35 +0100, Philipp Hasse wrote:
> is there a way to prevent the emerge command from rewriting the world 
> file located in /var/lib/portage?
> Everytime I use emerge the world file gets rewritten and all comments 
> and the structure is thrown away.
> It would be nice if emerge just parses this file and appends a new line 
> when a new package is recorded.

chattr +i and chattr -i 

The i is for immutable.

This assumes that you are using a filesystem that supports this
functionality. 

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