From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MbeUe-0002Dm-QA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:53:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ADA34E043B; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:53:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f210.google.com (mail-ew0-f210.google.com [209.85.219.210]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 719B5E043B for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:53:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy6 with SMTP id 6so1045624ewy.34 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:53:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=/dwk4PBqgj/HnZlnKOsAZqSyhmPGzg/kiEVgXQGOK5A=; b=GRLCn0ntlhjohEnreSmf//r+K3ub5KuWnxzzrgGdBb8lKZUj/p9pS1PRuVxPWtRhIy wiMzOX85tF9u2TEBazmDTEcCgxjSwQKqCOI3e+jhpBgvYCjrN00gaWC5+48f8pFSNQn/ 5E3RYdk7XsjgnfVFWghSojT6JTE/07kI4jqG4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=sErz+caAodT6Z82hdsZ0K2HlYnDnPC7ER5VfQ17lf45mv2dCe+7t+51VbYiLOoiqG7 ttmNemlpLtupCV4xj2/YZHFeb0z5PKao8/kj7BakizXp/zSo8gRpRz3Y3eIMP13lnkqG FdX1eNenfGl85AjHceDpcajFIkxF99XWxUjIw= Received: by 10.216.25.144 with SMTP id z16mr223141wez.179.1250186018650; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:53:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowcone (92-235-187-79.cable.ubr18.sgyl.blueyonder.co.uk [92.235.187.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i6sm230490gve.7.2009.08.13.10.53.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:53:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:53:31 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Make 10.0 profiles EAPI-2 'compliant' Message-ID: <20090813185331.47b9a042@snowcone> In-Reply-To: References: <90b936c0908121058y5fd25cfcm67a19761b1130896@mail.gmail.com> <200908122041.34205.scarabeus@gentoo.org> <20090812194656.47300704@snowcone> <20090813135658.2d497f7b@snowcone> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/9kpYiE60vzgNV=mFA8O42py"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 9421992b-05e2-4b71-9ef5-15cc5fbae55e X-Archives-Hash: 968b2c6b51073d6c621a7081f3b76fc2 --Sig_/9kpYiE60vzgNV=mFA8O42py Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:32:56 +0000 (UTC) Mark Bateman wrote: > > It is not the business of PMS to enforce undocumented features that > > Portage supports only by accident and that aren't used in the tree. >=20 > PMS doesn't depict just what portage should do, just what ebuild's in > the main tree are to expect. PMS documents what ebuilds may or may not rely upon from the package manager. PMS, like the Portage document, says that package.mask is a file. > This is a good feature (intentional or not) of portage and is already > finding usage in overlays. And it shouldn't be until it's gone through the proper process to become a documented, controlled feature rather than an accident people are exploiting. Seriously, this isn't difficult to do. I get the impression people are only trying to avoid doing it properly here so they can establish a precedent of not doing things properly... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/9kpYiE60vzgNV=mFA8O42py Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqEUx4ACgkQ96zL6DUtXhESagCgs8YE4an4P9w12ECnCD+JnKyU C8gAoL+v5MMBOoMip4N15ASlfKFS7oue =r31v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/9kpYiE60vzgNV=mFA8O42py--