On Wed, Feb 15 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:44:18 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> >> Good to know. I guess the default setting must be to overwrite as >> >> I've not made any of those setting changes. >> > >> > emerge --info will show you the settings in use. > >> Of course, but if you don't know about collision-protect, for >> instance, then how would one even know to put it there? > > emerge --info shows the defaults and settings from your profile, not just > what you put in make.conf. I have nothing relating to collision > protection in make.conf but emerge --info shows protect-owned in FEATURES > (I think the default used to be collision-protect).
That's it! I had collision-protect in make.conf. I just now removed it and indeed emerge --info shows protect-owned. I have an emerge of libreoffice running now. But hope tomorrow to be able to retry the nvidia-drivers emerge and see if it goes through. thanks, allan
