On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:33:58 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > >> cat rubygems >> >=dev-ruby/rubygems-2.2.5-r1 ruby_targets_ruby21 >> >=virtual/rubygems-10 ruby_targets_ruby21 >> >> Is this format acceptable? Or should I have used two separate files, >> one for 'dev-lang/rubygems', and another for 'virtual/rubygems'? > > Use whatever suits you, portage doesn't care whether you use one file for > everything or one file for each setting. > > My preference is to create a file for each program I use, and put the > settings for dependent packages in there, that way I know what they > relate to. It also means that if I remove the package, I can remove the > file too. This to my mind is the key advantage of the separate file > approach, a single file is too unwieldy without extensive comments, and I > am too lazy to add useful comments. > > But it's up to you, do whatever works for your way of thinking - it's all > the same to portage. > > One thing to be aware of is that portage adds "auto-unmask" entries to the > "last" file in package.use, so I always create a zzz-auto-unmask file > then transfer entries from there to the appropriate location. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick >
Understood. Thanks.
