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From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?q?Petten=C3=B2?=" <flameeyes@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Profile masking and profiles package.mask
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On Saturday 30 September 2006 19:39, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> isnt that the point of putting a comment above a mask ?
> # this package wont work on this profile
> bar/foo
Indeed, but the problem is that the masks are all normalised in one big mas=
k.=20
Which means that users might want to unmask certain versions found in the=20
top-level profile.mask, and also unmask some of the packages masked in a=20
profile.

> fbsd/packages:sys-freebsd/freebsd-mk-defs
> fbsd/package.mask:<nothing>
> fbsd/6.1/packages:<nothing>
> fbsd/6.1/package.mask:>=3Dsys-freebsd/freebsd-mk-defs-6.2
> fbsd/6.2/packages:<nothing>
> fbsd/6.2/package.mask:<nothing>
Actually, you need to mask < versions, too ...

> so what you're arguing is that we should retain the existing behavior
> because users might try to unmask something properly ?  trying to protect
> users from shooting themselves in the foot by making the profile behavior
> more complicated is a waste of time
Uh, it's not "making the profile behaviour more complicated", it's "retaini=
ng=20
the current behaviour of profiles".

But seems I'm in minority on this.
Still, if we're going to change this behaviour, it's the case to do it=20
properly, by also updating the behaviour of portage itself, and document th=
is=20
properly (as in, give a reasoning for this change of behaviour).

Note to Danny: releng controls default-linux, okay, but there are other=20
profiles than those, hardened and Gentoo/Alt. The decision should have been=
=20
taken by all the three of us, not unilaterally.

=2D-=20
Diego "Flameeyes" Petten=C3=B2 - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/
Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE

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