Bug 837725

Summary:	app-admin/doas: persist flag broken
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Avalon Williams <avalonwilliams>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Avalon Williams 2022-04-10 22:12:58 UTC

emerging app-admin/doas with the persist use flag (either set through package.use or through environmental variables), will not result in doas being compiled with the persist feature. In addition, when using emerge --ask, the flag shows up as if it was not selected, even if explictly set for the package via package.use.

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2022-04-10 22:16:47 UTC

It's not broken, it's masked.

You need to share some emerge output but it's almost certainly not a bug:
```
$ grep -rsin "app-admin/doas"
profiles/base/package.use.stable.mask:70:app-admin/doas persist
```

You probably see:
'app-admin/doas .... (-persist)'.

You need to unmask it in /etc/portage/profile/package.use.stable.mask, as 'app-admin/doas -persist', if you feel it's safe. It's masked for a reason.