try emerge info
to see what the end result of all the files. Also remember you have stackable (is that the name? its late) profiles. your profile is in /u/p/p/default.linux/x86/2005.0 but note the "parent" file in there, this contains a single entry: ".." - this means that everything in the directory above is also part of the profile. And guess what, so does the dir above have a parent file. And so on. so the make.defaults files in each of the included directories may add something to the profile. emerge info is a far easier way of seeing the end result! On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 20:23 +0000, James wrote: > Dave Nebinger <dnebinger <at> joat.com> writes: > > > > ls -l /etc/make.profile should indicate what profile you're linked to. > > How come all of those 'use.defaults' files still > have 2004.x in the path names instead of 2005.0 ? > > > I believe the 2005.x standard is to use the > > /u/p/p/default-linux/use.defaults; the 2004 version(s) were used by those > > specific profiles. In fact if you look at the listing it would appear that > > the intention is that the profile-specific use.defaults are extensions to > > the d-l/use.defaults file, indicating that at some point along the way it > > was determined that no 2005.x specific additions are necessary. Obviously > > there are others more qualified than I to answer this one correctly. > > > Thanks, > > James > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list