On Sun, 18 Oct 2020, Ashley Dixon wrote: > Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 17:12:45 > From: Ashley Dixon <a...@suugaku.co.uk> > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with my USE= statement in > /etc/portage/make.conf? > > On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 04:45:06PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > The ansifilter package won't build on this system yet. Certainly one to > > get in future though. > > I'll see if I can send you a binary off-list. It's not a particularly > complicated package, so I reckon you should be able to run a pre-compiled > executable without many issues. > > > I have a /etc/portage/package.use subdirectory containing zz-autounmask > > file. > > Do I need to append sys-auth/polkit elogind to the end of that > > zz-autounmask file? > > If package.use is a directory, that's fine (and recommended). Every file in > the > directory, and any subdirectories, contains package.use entries, all > concatenated together by Portage when processing. If you want, you could > append > the entry to zz-autounmask, but you could also do something more elegant: > > /etc/portage/package.use $ mkdir sys-auth > /etc/portage/package.use $ echo "sys-auth/polkit elogind" > > sys-auth/polkit > I hope the USE variable was entirely too rich. I shortened it considerably and saved the make.conf file so some duplicate work can be speeded up. I'm taking the system to bare metal and will use the make.conf file I have without earlier steps that are causing several packages to compile fail. I will be curious if I get further this next time. More later when I discover and I'll search ansifilter on other linux flavors since that to my mind is a seriously useful program when handling typescript files.
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