Re: [gentoo-user] Overriding environment variables per package

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:36:08 +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>
> > (3). cat package.env
> > app-cdr/xfburn debug.conf
> > (5). FEATURES="nostrip" emerge -av xfburn
> >
> > I've had to define FEATURES on the command line as shown in (5), for
> > nostrip to apply. For some reason, enabling the setting in
> > /etc/portage/env/debug.conf did not seem to work for me.
>
> That should be
>
> % cat package.env
> app-cdr/xfburn debug.conf
>
> % cat env/debug.conf
> FEATURES="nostrip"
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> Nixon's Principal: If 2 wrongs don't make a right, try 3.
>

I see where I went wrong. package.env goes into /etc/portage, not in
/etc/portage/env. Thanks for pointing that out.

Thanks to all those who have replied.