On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 22:47:42 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > 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?"
It basically adds a bunch of packages to /etc/portage/packages.unmask and /etc/portage/packages.keywords, bracketed by start/end comments so you can remove them. It's a quick and easy way of emerging something with a lot of masked dependencies, like kde-meta:4. I used it the last time I tried KDE4 and it did just as was expected, except is added =cat/pkg-vers, which I changed to ~cat/pkg/vers so I could pick up and fixes. -- Neil Bothwick ... Never say anything more predictive than "Watch this!"
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