Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory

2015-09-01 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Tuesday, September 01, 2015 4:02:52 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > How many heads will explode? I have /etc/portage/package.use/package.use > file (YES!) The only reason I made a package.use directory was because I > set up a cross-build environment, so that my ancient 32-bit Atom netbook >

Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory

2015-09-01 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Tuesday, September 01, 2015 11:29:42 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 15:26:10 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > Also one exception to the directory naming convention is the keywords > > file. The file was package.accept_keywords but the directory is > > package.keywords. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory

2015-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 15:26:10 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > Also one exception to the directory naming convention is the keywords > file. The file was package.accept_keywords but the directory is > package.keywords. The name was changed from package.keywords to package.accept_keywords to

Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory

2015-09-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 01/09/2015 12:21, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On 01/09/15 16:10, Emanuele Rusconi wrote: >> On 1 September 2015 at 10:02, Walter Dnes wrote: >>> How many heads will explode? I have /etc/portage/package.use/package.use >>> file (YES!) The only reason I made a package.use

Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory

2015-09-01 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 01/09/15 16:10, Emanuele Rusconi wrote: > On 1 September 2015 at 10:02, Walter Dnes wrote: >> How many heads will explode? I have /etc/portage/package.use/package.use >> file (YES!) The only reason I made a package.use directory was because I >> set up a cross-build

Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory

2015-09-01 Thread Emanuele Rusconi
On 1 September 2015 at 10:02, Walter Dnes wrote: > How many heads will explode? I have /etc/portage/package.use/package.use > file (YES!) The only reason I made a package.use directory was because I > set up a cross-build environment, so that my ancient 32-bit Atom

Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory

2015-09-01 Thread Walter Dnes
How many heads will explode? I have /etc/portage/package.use/package.use file (YES!) The only reason I made a package.use directory was because I set up a cross-build environment, so that my ancient 32-bit Atom netbook wouldn't have to spend 14 hours building Seamonkey. The cross-compiler

Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory

2015-09-01 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-09-01 06:21, Bill Kenworthy a écrit : Hey! - I am not the only one doing this then :) And it was also because of a cross-compiler. When I looked at how much extra work this type fragmentation causes, and how little (or any!) advantage it gives makes one wonder about the designers

Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory

2015-09-01 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Neil Bothwick 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

Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory

2015-08-31 Thread Todd Goodman
* Alexander Kapshuk [150831 15:35]: > Having read the email exchange on the possibility of using > 'package.use' as a directory, I thought I would give that a try. > > Here is what I have attempted so far. > > cd /etc/portage > mv package.use package.use.COPY >

Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory

2015-08-31 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Todd Goodman wrote: > * Alexander Kapshuk [150831 15:35]: >> Having read the email exchange on the possibility of using >> 'package.use' as a directory, I thought I would give that a try. >> >> Here is what I have

Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory

2015-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
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