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 1N6qSj-0000JA-8S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:56:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17977E0B8F; Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:56:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.121]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC33FE0B8F for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:56:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from linux1.localdomain ([76.183.49.63]) by cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20091107185635646.HCLZ6968@cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com> for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:56:35 +0000 Received: by linux1.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4C65143C03; Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:56:35 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:56:35 -0600 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies Message-ID: <20091107185635.GA23443@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <200911071824.16651.scarabeus@gentoo.org> <20091107180322.GA23301@linux1> <20091107193312.5df04226@gentoo.org> 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; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091107193312.5df04226@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: 2a366f91-604c-42d9-a7d3-e5cfc977889c X-Archives-Hash: d2944c9e194816ccedc8adeaabfdac62 --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 07:33:12PM +0100, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, >=20 > William Hubbs : > > > * Masking live... > > > Heck no. This is not proper usage. Just use keywords mask. > > > KEYWORDS=3D"". 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). > > =20 > > True. If we mask live ebuilds with KEYWORDS=3D"", there isn't a reason > > to put them in p.mask that I can think of. >=20 > Many users use "**" in their p.keywords file and get a live ebuild > then. =20 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. --=20 William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead williamh@gentoo.org --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkr1wuMACgkQblQW9DDEZTgBQwCaA+JLFTnJT5e+Qc/gldNng5wT 4HAAoItMakhaCQCQ314X7e06rbRS8JPh =jtL5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0--