On Tuesday 25 November 2008, 15:54, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Zsitvai János wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So you're saying I must spend 1 hour to mask all the stuff? (Not > >> joking, the list is big, I have to do "emerge -av world" each time > >> and see the package, mask it, emerge again, mask it, emerge again, > >> mask it, ad infinitum. This is not funny :P) > > > > eix -C kde-|grep "\[[IU]\]"|awk -F" " '{print $2 ":4.1"}' > > > /etc/portage/package.mask/kde4 > > package.mask is a file here, not a directory.
It can also be a directory. See man portage for the details. /etc/portage/ Any file in this directory that begins with "package." can be more than just a flat file. If it is a directory, then all the files in that directory will be summed together as if it were a single file. (and, btw, adapting the above to the case where package.mask is a single file is very easy)