From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15361 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Aug 2003 00:13:29 -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 26888 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2003 00:13:29 -0000 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 20:12:35 -0400 From: Matt Rickard To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030804201235.10a2dae7.frogger@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200307301039.24918.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <200307301039.24918.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] i hate KEYWORDS=-* X-Archives-Salt: 15e98678-dac3-4f3f-add5-34920bd3547e X-Archives-Hash: 4a53e34308609151bb1d660c66cdc569 Sorry for the belated reply, but it seems we still haven't done anything about this -- and it frustrated me enough today that I decided to revive this thread :) > so i guess people are using KEYWORDS=-* because they dont want ppl > easily emerging a package that will break them ... specifically the > latest gcc/glibc ebuilds ... now while i agree that they are not > suitable for stable or unstable systems, and maybe too risky even for > package.mask, it is a pita to emerge these suckers and then safely > keep them on youur system ... I don't see what KEYWORDS=-* does that package.mask doesn't? Just mark the packages unstable, package.mask them, and throw in a comment in package.mask saying "This will most likely completely break your system". Problem solved. Users don't get the package, and developers can easily unmask it if needed. This certainly beats the screwing around you need to do now to get these packages built. > > what i propose is that people who make ebuilds with KEYWORDS=-* add in > an extra little word, namely 'pleasebreakme'. that is, from now on, > have it read: > KEYWORDS="-* pleasebreakme" I don't see any reason for this. Isn't this the exact reason we have package.mask? -- Matt Rickard frogger@gentoo.org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list