On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 11:47:01PM -0700, Bryan Gardiner wrote > package.keywords can be a directory instead of a file, in which case the > "file" > that ends up getting used is the concatenation of all of the files in the > directory. It lets you split your keywords up rather than having one large > monolithic file. In my case: > > $ ll /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/ > total 28 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4314 Apr 22 12:42 eclipse-3.7 > -rw-r--r-- 1 khumba khumba 8739 Aug 1 23:56 kde-4.9.keywords.2012-08-01 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3999 Aug 2 23:11 mine > > The KDE file for example is provided on the Gentoo KDE page for unmasking all > of the files necessary for KDE 4.9, and you don't have to merge it into your > personal keywords file. You have to be careful not to leave any xxx~ backup > files in the directory, because they count as well. > > The same applies to package.use. The new style is for the file/directory to > be > called package.accept_keywords. There's more info in "man 5 portage".
Are the package.use files additive? I.e. if one use file has app-fu/bar flag1 and another use file has app-fu/bar flag2 is that equivalant to one combined use file with app-fu/bar flag1 flag2 -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
