From: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:56:35 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091107185635.GA23443@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091107193312.5df04226@gentoo.org>
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On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 07:33:12PM +0100, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>:
> > > * Masking live...
> > > Heck no. This is not proper usage. Just use keywords mask.
> > > KEYWORDS="". Problem solved and the package.mask is smaller. (Note,
> > > in overlays do what ever you want, since it does not polute the
> > > main mask from g-x86).
> >
> > True. If we mask live ebuilds with KEYWORDS="", there isn't a reason
> > to put them in p.mask that I can think of.
>
> Many users use "**" in their p.keywords file and get a live ebuild
> then.
If a user runs ~arch even for one package, they should be able to
recover if things break temporarily. So, if they are putting ** in
their package.keywords for packages, that is another level past ~arch
to me. They should definitely be able to recover in that situation.
--
William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
williamh@gentoo.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-07 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-07 17:24 [gentoo-dev] QA: package.mask policies Tomáš Chvátal
2009-11-07 18:03 ` William Hubbs
2009-11-07 18:33 ` [gentoo-dev] " Christian Faulhammer
2009-11-07 18:56 ` William Hubbs [this message]
2009-11-07 19:03 ` Duncan
2009-11-08 0:08 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-11-08 1:25 ` Duncan
2009-11-08 23:46 ` Vlastimil Babka
2009-11-08 1:26 ` Kent Fredric
2009-11-08 15:13 ` Christian Faulhammer
2009-11-09 13:17 ` Duncan
2009-11-08 12:41 ` [gentoo-dev] " Peter Volkov
2009-11-08 16:57 ` Jeroen Roovers
2009-11-08 17:20 ` Tomáš Chvátal
2009-11-11 16:43 ` Jeroen Roovers
2009-11-11 17:11 ` [gentoo-dev] " Torsten Veller
2009-11-11 21:54 ` Jeroen Roovers
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