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From: Frederick Reeve <frederick@woodland-i.org>
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> 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 <sabin>




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