On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 at 11:20, Michał Górny wrote:
> Right now we have three flags that do pretty much the same thing, via
> different libraries:
>
> Given that they are roughly used in the same way, and only a small
> subset of packages (e.g. mpv) support more than one library, how about
> settlin
On Wed, 13 Sept 2023 at 09:55, Andrew Ammerlaan
wrote:
> And then another thing, how is it possible that so many people missed
> the news item? They are displayed quite prominently I think, and emerge
> will keep buggering you about it until it is marked as read. Just
> wondering if there is somet
On Tue, 30 Aug 2022 at 11:52, Jaco Kroon wrote:
> I note that the default provider for the virtual is systemd-utils[udev],
> followed by sys-fs/udev, sys-fs/eudev and finally sys-apps/systemd.
> This contradicts the wiki page which states that sys-fs/udev is the
> default (https://wiki.gentoo.org/
On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 at 18:24, Michał Górny wrote:
> I'm pretty sure we've never officially advised anyone to remove
> important directories via INSTALL_MASK. INSTALL_MASK on unit
> directories will not affect udev users. On the other hand, if someone
> was overzealous and stripped whole /lib/sys
On 23 March 2018 at 14:27, Rich Freeman wrote:
> It sounds to me that one of the intended behaviors is to tell portage
> that for a particular package we want to ignore a particular
> repository entirely. Suppose for example an overlay contains
> misc/foo-3, and the main repo introduces misc/foo-
On 27 November 2017 at 20:44, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 11/27/2017 03:37 PM, Arve Barsnes wrote:
> >
> > Sounds kind of weird? If he has keyworded the game package, shouldn't it
> > just never install that version if it depends on an unstable package?
>
> Th
On 27 November 2017 at 20:34, Rich Freeman wrote:
> To answer his question, there is not any way out-of-the-box to tell
> portage to install the latest ~arch version of a package that has only
> stable or already-accepted dependencies. Certainly it should be
> possible to build such a feature, b
