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