From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from parrot.gentoo.org (lists.gentoo.org [156.56.111.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j1PDHSD9006305 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:17:28 GMT Received: (qmail 21315 invoked by uid 89); 25 Feb 2005 13:17:27 +0000 Received: (qmail 9465 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2005 13:17:27 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 25 Feb 2005 13:17:27 +0000 Received: from [62.254.189.226] (helo=snowdrop) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.42) id 1D4fLT-0008Jr-5s for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:17:27 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop) by snowdrop with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D4fL3-0007gT-Vt for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:17:02 +0000 Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:16:58 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] -* v.s. package.mask Message-ID: <20050225131658.44d6c380@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <20050225101327.GC19670@ols-dell.iic.hokudai.ac.jp> References: <421B2BDD.107@pnpitalia.it> <20050222171919.GB22112@curie-int.vc.shawcable.net> <421E2CA5.4030105@gentoo.org> <421EED54.40609@pnpitalia.it> <20050225101327.GC19670@ols-dell.iic.hokudai.ac.jp> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Signature_Fri__25_Feb_2005_13_16_58_+0000_MTdiUDzU9Tqu8Nq9; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 X-Archives-Salt: c09e33f9-be5a-4ae7-b496-e55ae04c5f7b X-Archives-Hash: c84ba1427eede9a1a8c215a95d5cabfa --Signature_Fri__25_Feb_2005_13_16_58_+0000_MTdiUDzU9Tqu8Nq9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:13:27 +0900 Georgi Georgiev wrote: | I hope I am not really hijacking the thread, but: |=20 | maillog: 25/02/2005-10:18:12(+0100): Francesco Riosa types | > Maybe after some time it has been in the tree keyworded "-*" | > (testing, testing, testing)? |=20 | What's the policy for "-*" v.s. "package.mask"? '-*' is pretty | annoying in my opinion. Is "-*" for really, really bad ebuilds or | something? -* is generally used to indicate that it's a binary package or something similar which has no chance of working on archs that it's not keyworded for. package.mask means maybe portable, but too broken for ~arch. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Fri__25_Feb_2005_13_16_58_+0000_MTdiUDzU9Tqu8Nq9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCHyVM96zL6DUtXhERAvJhAKC1Tlryva8n+f+fWNMrN+WhgAYHEACgg8pG TgNHmLnum9actyYqD1jjvuM= =0Beq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Fri__25_Feb_2005_13_16_58_+0000_MTdiUDzU9Tqu8Nq9-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list