[SOLVED] How to unmask a use flag?

[Voyageur]

I am currently toying with beagle (a mono based files indexing) on my amd64, and apart from unmasking quite a few packages, I also need to have the mono USE flag set (which is masked on amd64..)

Google only returned suggestions about tweaking directly /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/use.mask, but this is of course removed after every "emerge sync". I tried creating a "/etc/portage/profile/use.unmask", but this did not help...

For now, I'm sed'ing the use.mask after sync, waiting for mono flag to be unmasked, but is there another solution?

Sorry if the answer lies somewhere in the forums, the search system filters use in "use.mask" and therefore returns many many results
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[taipan67]

Using the /etc/portage/profile directory ought to have been the right idea, but i think it will only recognise file-names that already exist in the standard profile-heirachy - hence, no 'use.unmask'...

...Therefore, see if a double-negative works :-

[Voyageur]

Hum I wonder if this works with masking in package.unmask and unmasking in package.mask?

Anyway thanks a lot, "-mono" in use.mask works fine!
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[taipan67]