Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

[Alexander Gretencord <arutha@gmx.de>]

On Sunday 02 April 2006 17:23, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
> This is not the case. At least unless the user actively looks at
> package.mask. Since Portage doesn't provide the information, this point is
> void. And even if - four weeks are a too long, imho.

As Andrej Kacian already noted, there are quite some people that don't sync 
every week. My general feeling is that most gentoo devs are far too fast in 
their decision/actions. As I already stated elsewhere in this thread, I 
generally only sync when I need to upgrade for feature/bug-/security-fixes 
and I don't see why that would be a bad idea. That way I get the benefits of 
gentoo but don't spend all day merging stuff that will have a new version two 
hours later :)

Regarding your argument that you have to be actively looking at p.mask, that 
is not entirely true because a verbose world/system merge will tell you about 
a masked package, although I do think that this is not enough and even the 
message in verbose mode is not really noticeable. But just because portage 
does not really alert the user anyway, does not mean that masking first is 
bad, does it? I think the reporting of missing/masked packages in portage has 
to be improved, instead of removing the masking process :)

Just my 0.02EUR.


Alex
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