From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12383 invoked by uid 1002); 9 Mar 2003 18:03:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 19150 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2003 18:03:58 -0000 From: Frederick Reeve To: Sven Vermeulen Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20030309104118.GB1765@Daikan.pandora.be> References: <1047156369.6631.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20030309104118.GB1765@Daikan.pandora.be> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1047203933.6575.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2- Date: 09 Mar 2003 10:58:53 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] net.eth0 X-Archives-Salt: 366bd524-38fc-4421-a60f-48a9f2042044 X-Archives-Hash: 9467123d6874a11e12e5bb73fe7b4b11 > Isn't the --nodeps options that what you are looking for? > > --nodeps (-O short option) > Merge specified packages, but don't merge any dependencies. > Note that the build may fail if deps aren't satisfied. > No nodeps doesn't ignore the fact a package is masked allowing a merge of a package that is masked. Many masked packages will install and correctly especially when you are talking about whats masked out for alpha. a force option would allow users to easily test the masked out packages for themselves (without changing there package.mask file) and they in return could give you reports. Frederick -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list