Bug 57402

Summary:	Feature suggestion: create skeleton /etc/portage directory.
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Stephen Bennett (RETIRED) <spb>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stephen Bennett (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-17 11:01:50 UTC

There are a large number of users on the forums confused by the non-existence of /etc/portage on their systems. I'd suggest that creating a skeleton /etc/portage directory with functionally empty but commented versions of some of the more common files (eg package.unmake, package.mask, and package.keywords) would help this. 

Functionally, this wouldn't make any difference, but it could greatly reduce confusion when people are told to edit files in a (currently) non-existent directory.

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-17 11:05:00 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26351 ***