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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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  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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