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| author |   Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org> | 2007-03-24 17:02:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org> | 2007-03-24 17:02:41 +0000 |
| commit | 0684b5a21f2acb3b0899555c2ba85789383e11ea (patch) | |
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| parent | (ferringb) Reword no additional pkg dirs in a cat dir (diff) | |
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(ferringb) Add todo item about package.mask removing lines from package.mask
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diff --git a/profiles.tex b/profiles.tex index ce39e1b..c3cb429 100644 --- a/profiles.tex +++ b/profiles.tex @@ -84,9 +84,13 @@ but is mentioned here for completeness. contains one dep atom; anything matching this atom will not be installed unless unmasked by the user's configuration. -Note that the the \t{-atom} syntax can be used to remove a mask in a parent profile, but not +Note that the \t{-atom} syntax can be used to remove a mask in a parent profile, but not necessarily a global mask (from \t{profiles/package.mask}, section \ref{profiles-package.mask}). +\TODO{Portage has rather weird behaviour on \t{profiles/package.mask}. It treats it as being + at the leftmost branch of the inherit tree for purposes of removing items. This is rather + icky. Is it safe to require proper separation between the two types of \t{package.mask}?} + \subsection{package.provided} \t{package.provided} is used to tell the package manager that a certain package version should be considered to be provided by the system regardless of whether it is actually installed. Because it |