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Why our policies don't like emerge --config
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Fri 23 August 2013

One of the features that Portage provides is to have post-processing done on request of the administrator for certain packages. For instance, for the dev-db/postgresql-server package we can call its pkg_config() phase to create the PostgreSQL instance and configure it so that the configuration of the database is stored …