[gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies

[Christian Faulhammer <fauli@gentoo.org>]

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Hi,

Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>:
> 1) Users using ** in their package.keywords file should know enough
> about what they're doing to use their own package.mask, as well.  If
> they're using ** in the keywords file, they're /saying/ they're
> reading to handle such things, after all, why shouldn't we let them?

 They do it, because they don't know what they are doing.  Just seen it
somewhere, heard about it.  During LinuxTag the question why ** unmasks
some live ebuilds occured at least three times.

V-Li

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