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 1Durd1-0006H0-EZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:55:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6JCrid9011989; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:53:44 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6JCq5w3012067 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:52:05 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Durap-00019I-BD for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:53:03 +0000 Received: (qmail 1000 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2005 08:51:34 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 19 Jul 2005 08:51:34 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [G/FBSD] /usr/lib/charset.alias Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 08:53:12 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <200507160233.59924@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <200507180047.30043.vapier@gentoo.org> <1121773185.31522.6.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507190853.12833.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: eb859250-cbe1-478c-8e06-3e40a4dd72bb X-Archives-Hash: cf4ec121810026542e5c331b2925ab33 On Tuesday 19 July 2005 07:39 am, Ned Ludd wrote: > 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. right, most people arent using it right now so i dont see much harm in changing (improving!) behavior -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list