New Gentoo Goodies

07. Jun. 2011 at 18:45 under Pypy, Gentoo, English

Two very wanted features landed in Gentoo Linux portage tree.

PyPy ebuild submitted just 2 months ago!

automatic unmask of packages released in portage 2.1.10! Thanks Zac Medico, you rock!

--autounmask and --autounmask-write are two new parameters for portage that every user was dreaming of. It will even respect --ask flag! Here is what happens:

emerge --ask --autounmask-write pypy will ask you to unmask latest pypy version and to confirm configuration changes
emerge --autounmask-write pypy will just unmask needed packages without asking.

In either case, you have to confirm changes with dispatch-conf or similar tools. Happy Gentooing!

PS: I put EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask-write" into /etc/make.conf to make life easier.