Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file

2011-07-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:22:05 -0500, Dale wrote: Wouldn't this be like putting package.* back to a file instead of a directory tho? That would seem like one step forward and two steps back. Maybe I am missing something again. I sort of got some issues going on around

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file

2011-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 02:52:05 -0500, Dale wrote: No, the discussion is about the name of the file in package.unmask. if that is a file there is no issue. The problem is that portage just picks a file from that directory, it should either have its own file in there or add the entries to a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file

2011-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:22:05 -0500, Dale wrote: Wouldn't this be like putting package.* back to a file instead of a directory tho? That would seem like one step forward and two steps back. Maybe I am missing something again. I sort of got some issues going on around here. :/ No, the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file

2011-07-06 Thread Gian Calgeer
On 05.07.2011 17:58, Dale wrote: I was using autounmask to do this and it does just like you want. However, the last time I used autounmask, it was different. You may want to try that tho to see if it helps in some way. The feature with emerge picks the first file I think in the directory.

[gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file

2011-07-05 Thread Gian Calgeer
Hi I was really looking forward to the new autounmask feature in portage, as it replaces my ugly home-grown bash script. However, it just picks a seemingly random file in /etc/portage/package.keywords to put things into. Is there a way to specify which file it writes things into? Ideally, I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Gian Calgeer wrote: Hi I was really looking forward to the new autounmask feature in portage, as it replaces my ugly home-grown bash script. However, it just picks a seemingly random file in /etc/portage/package.keywords to put things into. Is there a way to specify which file it writes

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file

2011-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:58:57 -0500, Dale wrote: Then again, that is yet another option to have to remember too. Jeez. That's why we have EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS :) -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 46: Found missing signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:58:57 -0500, Dale wrote: Then again, that is yet another option to have to remember too. Jeez. That's why we have EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS :) Yea but I don't always want it to unmask packages either. If I was going to let that be the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file

2011-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:43:36 -0500, Dale wrote: Then again, that is yet another option to have to remember too. Jeez. That's why we have EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS :) Yea but I don't always want it to unmask packages either. If I was going to let that be the default, I thought we were

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --autounmask-write: specify file

2011-07-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:43:36 -0500, Dale wrote: Then again, that is yet another option to have to remember too. Jeez. That's why we have EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS :) Yea but I don't always want it to unmask packages either. If I was going to let that