Chin Jin Phua wrote:

>>> I have made modification to my package.mask. However, everytime I
>>> run a emerge --sync, the package.mask got written over. It is very
>>> annoying as I have to modify the file all the time. Any idea how to
>>> stop this from happening?
>>
>> Which file are you editing?
>>
>> You should be editing /etc/portage/*
>
> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask

Hello! That's the one he has been editing up until now. It gets wiped
at every sync, hence he has to use /etc/portage/package.* instead!

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PeKaJe

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