On April 23, 2017 10:04:50 AM GMT+02:00, Marc Joliet <mar...@gmx.de> wrote: >On Sonntag, 23. April 2017 07:56:05 CEST J. Roeleveld wrote: >> Ok. /etc/portage/package.use.unmask doesn't work. > >First, there is no package.use.unmask (although I'll grant that that >would be >the intuitive name for such a file). There is only package.use.mask >and >package.use.stable.mask, which can reside in the portage tree and in >/etc/ >portage/profile/. portage(5) has this to say (see especially the >second >example): > >package.use.mask and package.use.stable.mask > Per-package USE flag masks. > > Note: In a cascading profile setup, you can remove USE >flags in children profiles which were added by parent profiles by >prefixing >the flag with a '-'. > > Format: > - comments begin with # (no inline comments) > - one DEPEND atom per line with space-delimited USE flags > > Example: > # mask docs for GTK 2.x > =x11-libs/gtk+-2* doc > # unmask mysql support for QT > x11-libs/qt -mysql > >In this particular case, both files can be used, it seems (I'm not sure >what >the "stable" refers to in this case, it's probably explained on the >Gentoo >wiki somewhere or in the developer documentation). > >HTH
Thanks. This worked. I have been using the kde/plasma version for kmail for a while. After the gcc5.4 upgrade, I wanted to rebuild everything and encountered this issue. I'll need to read up on the profile directory options. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
