On 11/08/2013 17:58, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hello, > > Was reviewing older news items and was wondering about this one: > > "# eselect news read 12 > 2012-09-09-make.conf-and-make.profile-move > Title make.conf and make.profile move > Author Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto <jmbsvice...@gentoo.org> > Posted 2012-09-09 > Revision 1 > > Starting next week, new stages will have make.conf and make.profile > moved from /etc to /etc/portage. This is a change in the installation > defaults, that will only affect new installs so it doesn't affect > current systems. > > Current users don't need to do anything. But if you want to follow the > preferred location, you may want to take the chance to move the files > in your system(s) to the new location." > > My question is, what if they are in both locations? Which ones are used? > I would assume that portage now looks first in /etc/portage and uses > those if it finds them, and if not, looks in /etc - but the news item is > incomplete on this question. >
My question is why do you have files in both locations? /etc is the old location, /etc/portage is the new location, so simply delete the one you do not want. It's easy enough to determine for yourself which one has higher priority. Make the files differ in some way that causes an easy to detect change in emerge output. Move the file out of the way one by one and run energe world. Then you will have the answer to your question. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
