Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask vs ~arch

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 06:13:45PM +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:40:19 -0400
> Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > But... if I unmask it, -everyone- using ~arch will install it and
> > it'll break all the systems that it doesn't work on, which -could- be
> > quite a lot at this point.  :D
> 
> Which is great, because then you have an actual test result, whereas
> before you had nothing but a stupid mask.
> 
> And lots of people are suddenly very much interested in getting any and
> all bugs fixed in the new ebuild, whereas before you only had the stupid
> mask.
> 
> 
>      jer

I am going to agree with Jer on this.

As said before, ~arch users know that their systems will break
sometimes, so if the package works for you, unleash it on ~arch. If
someone using a configuration you don't have finds that it breaks, I'm
sure it would be reported. Then you could determine whether the bug is
severe enough to warrant a mask.

William


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