From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuqWL-0003nk-N0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:44:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6JBgkOU024088; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:42:46 GMT Received: from skinny.southernlinux.net (ns2.rednecks.net [64.192.52.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6JBecBe007836 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:40:38 GMT Received: (qmail 30610 invoked by uid 210); 19 Jul 2005 07:39:44 -0400 Received: from 10.10.10.188 by skinny (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (clamdscan: 0.82/982. f-prot: 4.4.2/3.14.11. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(10.10.10.188):. Processed in 0.067145 secs); 19 Jul 2005 11:39:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.10.10.188?) (10.10.10.188) by 0 with SMTP; 19 Jul 2005 07:39:44 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [G/FBSD] /usr/lib/charset.alias From: Ned Ludd To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200507180047.30043.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <200507160233.59924@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <200507171017.49427.vapier@gentoo.org> <1121616219.6170.14.camel@localhost> <200507180047.30043.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:39:45 -0400 Message-Id: <1121773185.31522.6.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6741ee0a-6ec3-4c90-bf15-99c56f43e855 X-Archives-Hash: fdd063df861a525e9b9025a182fe6c30 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. -- Ned Ludd -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list