On 9/10/05, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10 Sep 2005, at 16:15, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Hi, > > Generic question - why is package.provided located in > > /etc/make.profile instead of in /etc/portage? Won't l lose my edits > > when profile changes come along? > > > > It seems to me that if I take responsibility for a package, such as > > jack-audio-connection-kit, that I wouldn't want the system to take > > responsibility for it later on when a profile change comes along. > > > > package.provided is a great feature. I would have killed for this > > on my old Redhat systems. > > > > Thanks, > > Mark > > Yes, if you keep package.provided in /etc/make.profile it will get > overwritten at every sync. The proper place to put your overrides is > in /etc/portage/profile, which took me a good while to figure out... > > Indeed it is rather nice :-) > > HTH, > Chris >
Hi Chris, Thanks. That seems to work and is indeed a much better place to put it. I did not see that in the man pages (is it there?) so I appreciate the pointer. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
