Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 05 October 2008 20:16:55 Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:08:23 +0200, b.n. wrote: >> >>> Could you share your relevant package.mask and package.keywords, for >>> the laziest of us? :) >>> >> emerge autounmask >> autounmask kde-meta >> > > For the super-lazy amongst us, what does that package do? > > OK, I can figure out what it does, so my real question should be "what other > stuff does it do that I might not expect? Any gotchas?" > > I've become ... wary ... of useful sounding packages that claim to automate > tricky portage things > > >
I have used it and it seems to work pretty good. I must confess that I backed up my /etc just in case. ;-) Never hurts right? I used it to unmask KDE 4 when it first came out just to see what, if anything, was different. Since I am still on dial-up and KDE 4 was updating a pretty good bit, I went back to KDE 3.5. I also like the way it separated what it added to the package.* files from what I already had there. In Kwrite for example, you can just highlight from where it started to the end, hit delete and it is like it never happened. May be worth a try, just back up /etc first. Just in case your mileage varies. :-p Dale :-) :-)
