Nick Rout <nick <at> rout.co.nz> writes:
> emerge info Hey, that's pretty cool. Must of missed/forgot this command... > to see what the end result of all the files. > > Also remember you have stackable (is that the name? its late) profiles. > > your profile is in > > /u/p/p/default.linux/x86/2005.0 you mean: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 default.linux thru me for a few seconds until a search show default-linux... > but note the "parent" file in there, this contains a single entry: ".." > - this means that everything in the directory above is also part of the > profile. And guess what, so does the dir above have a parent file. And > so on. so the make.defaults files in each of the included directories > may add something to the profile. > > emerge info is a far easier way of seeing the end result! > Yep, 'emerge info' is what I was missing. Thanks for the explaination on the ".." mechanisms. That's what's so cool about Gentoo, it's all there and folks like yourself take the time to illuminate details of how things actually work. Thanks again Nick! James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
