I noticed the file /var/lib/portage/config and wonder what it is. I could not find it mentioned in the portage, emerge, or ebuild man pages. I also looked in the portage chapter of the handbook.
I ask because I have a problem with it. For some reason I cannot understand this file was moved (I guess by me) to /local/var/lib/portage/config and presumably a symlink left in /var/lib/portage. However, there is no symlink in /var/lib/portage and a new version of config has been generated. The same thing occurred with /var/lib/portage/world, but I understand this file and merged the two versions (after checking the new small one for sanity). Should I also merge the two config files and can I alphabetize them and uniq the result? thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
