Xorg/Configuration:/etc/portage/package.use: Is a directory

liu_fanyi · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2015 Posts: 22

Hi,
follow "Xorg/Configuration", have this step:
root #echo "x11-base/xorg-server udev" >> /etc/portage/package.use

and i get this:
-bash: /etc/portage/package.use: Is a directory

thanks
:cry:

MrBrutico · n00b Joined: 01 Jan 2015 Posts: 53

Custom or name you want.
root #echo "x11-base/xorg-server udev" >> /etc/portage/package.use/custom

liu_fanyi · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2015 Posts: 22

ambad4u · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 2:40 pm Post subject:

before, it was a single file, and as today, it is a directory.
what I did was put it in single files like grub (for example) then put in the needed use flags and it works.

wonder why it is on a directory structure now..., hope anyone can shed light on this one.

ambad4u · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 3:00 pm Post subject:

liu_fanyi · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2015 Posts: 22

liu_fanyi · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2015 Posts: 22

Section_8 · l33t Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 627

I have a question related to this. I am probably going to convert my package.use to a directory due to the 100 or so packages added a couple of weeks ago for everything that needed abi_x86_32.

I use vi with backup turned on to edit config files. So I will end up with package.use/whatever and package.use/whatever~ (backup) after editing anything. Is portage smart enough to ignore these, or will I need to clean them up or turn backup off in .vimrc?

bstaletic · Apprentice Joined: 05 Apr 2014 Posts: 249

Section_8,

just tried making package.use/terminus~ which differed from package.use/terminus, and ran emerge -avuDN @world. No rebuilds were found. Thus I conclude that portage is smart enough not to take "backup" files into account.

Section_8 · l33t Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 627

Thanks - I was hoping portage could handle those.