On Wednesday, 18 May 2022 22:26:44 BST Wol wrote: > On 18/05/2022 15:22, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Somewhere around here I said I had too many USE flag staatements > > under/etc/ > > portage, so I removed package.use and just set whatever flags were needed > > to install all my packages. > > If you make package.use a directory, you can do what I do, and try to > have one file in package.use for each package I actually want installed. > And if you qualify the packages with "current version" however you do > that, then they'll expire regularly so you're forced to keep it > up-to-date :-)
Yes, I do the same. I did wonder at the large number of files under package.use, though, which is why I thought it a good idea to prune them a bit. The consequences just spread further than I expected. :( -- Regards, Peter.
