On 12:39 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: > > What does which profile it is have to do with the mask? > /etc/portage/package.unmask unmasks hard-masked applications on the > profile you are using-- the profile supercedes all later adjustment > files, insofar as all later adjustment files (/etc/make.conf, > /etc/portage/whatever) all refer to the profile defaults to know what to > adjust. >
1) This has nothing to do with masked packages, it's about masked use flags. 2) packages can be masked by profile (as can use flags). > Obviously -- or at least it seems obvious to me, but that doesn't say > much-- that if the package is hard-masked, the USE flag that is > associated with it will be disabled (because the package the USE flag > would call is unavailable). Maybe, but that's not the way portage works these things out Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
