Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 24 May 2009 19:26:43 Dale wrote: > >> Also, is this the file that contains the system set? >> >> /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages >> >> If so, python is commented out as is a few others. Is there a way to >> add files to something in /etc that emerge would consider in addition to >> this file? In other words, if a user is using portage, is there a place >> that they could set this in /etc so that it overrides the fact it is >> missing in the system set? Just add python and other missing packages >> to the file and we can carry on. I assume adding it to world would not >> do any good with buildsyspkg enabled? >> > > profiles are cascading and support multiple inheritance (parent files can > contain several entries). So, you have to run > > find /usr/portage/profiles -name packages > > to find them all, and apply brain power to find the few that actually apply > to > you > > >
Something like this? r...@smoker / # ls -al /etc/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 Dec 16 22:09 /etc/make.profile -> /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop/ r...@smoker / # I would assume it uses what the make.profile is linked to. Correct? Thing is, is there some file supported in /etc/ that is user editable? If not, then it doesn't matter. If a user edits the file in /usr/portage, it will default back when re-syncing. Dale :-) :-)
