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From: Christian Faulhammer <fauli@gentoo.org>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:33:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091107193312.5df04226@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091107180322.GA23301@linux1>

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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.

V-Li

-- 
Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-07 18:34 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   ` Christian Faulhammer [this message]
2009-11-07 18:56     ` [gentoo-dev] " William Hubbs
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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