Re: [gentoo-dev] [G/FBSD] /usr/lib/charset.alias

[Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 00:47 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Sunday 17 July 2005 12:03 pm, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > INSTALL_MASK is non cumulative.
> > Please use INSTALL_MASK="${INSTALL_MASK} /usr/lib/charset.alias" as to not
> > override the user in anyway.

> any harm with making it cumulative ? 
>  iirc, it takes just a few minor tweaks 
> to portage to declare it as such

None that I can think of. other than it not working that way now and if 
we start assuming it does too soon in the next XYZ version and the user
is still on ABC they will end up with a non up masked files. Not that it
should be to much of a real problem as imasking remains one of portages
better kept secrets and not that many people are using them outside of
embedded.

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Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>

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