On 4/18/20 10:56 AM, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
Hi,
I /thought/ that /etc/portage/package.mask is a file and using it
in this manner works as exspected.
Also the docs are of that opinion, too:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.mask
BUT!
* error: please convert //etc/portage/package.mask to a directory
*
urges me to make a directory out of it.
After doing so, the command starts.
I am confused....slightly...
The devs are deprecating the flat-file version of package.*, I have been
gettings warnings during emerges indicating that they all need to be
changed to the directory layout.
If you ignore this eventually emerge will stop working. I've already
taken the few minutes to move all my boxes to the directory layout, and
split out the packages to individual files. You don't have to go that
far though, the entries can stay in one file under the new directory
structure.
Dan
