From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FB501393DD for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:33:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1D9EE0B0B; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:32:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oa0-f51.google.com (mail-oa0-f51.google.com [209.85.219.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 080F5E0AAE for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:32:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f51.google.com with SMTP id j17so9264263oag.10 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:32:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=HCaoYif25FCmITuK9hr+MLPhFEs2uqgFaN8rFururz0=; b=ZyAgI2G+VkVb7s5JFZl4Y+oOb83/ZfSzskY6/Wk3O+HclH7mmAC0uyWFx7emw7H8Yv /OGxm3WcATycpLV0WW4dXn4rh1w20Ju2YiF7QcgZ4TNJZUSnguyCg4PjkiuQfc6+MSVd yC27B34bbB0zzjGPbT/d/SZEqkc4bHrZFI/PB3DAW2PvlO6DUgpteOMDVI1QGbYrRmy2 m9RVMReyZMAEnsemdPMlAo/0uovbv8GH3hRV5m+6qvZXyrD327ETVtopi+xvmK4v0ftn EoIZbK9b4WI0CtG8jD41jsj3u2ylUtHPSOPG7XgIZOTu0cjQxTSC/vaB7NjsNAouBKQU 2IKQ== X-Received: by 10.60.44.162 with SMTP id f2mr3840759oem.84.1404145958218; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:32:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linux1 (cpe-76-187-91-128.tx.res.rr.com. [76.187.91.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id m5sm25613689obz.2.2014.06.30.09.32.36 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:32:36 -0700 (PDT) Sender: William Hubbs Received: (nullmailer pid 2621 invoked by uid 1000); Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:32:35 -0000 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:32:35 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask vs ~arch Message-ID: <20140630163235.GA2521@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20140630040153.GA668@linux1> <53B1809F.9070807@gentoo.org> <20140630173654.0c70c367@pomiot.lan> <53B184E3.5040902@gentoo.org> <20140630181345.702381e2@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net> 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="82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140630181345.702381e2@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Archives-Salt: 919e3673-b8c0-4675-a7d8-3787b7e3ad1b X-Archives-Hash: d7a7eda330f9ad9153080e36dacc56ec --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 06:13:45PM +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:40:19 -0400 > Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >=20 > > 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 >=20 > Which is great, because then you have an actual test result, whereas > before you had nothing but a stupid mask. >=20 > 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. >=20 >=20 > 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 --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlOxkSMACgkQblQW9DDEZTiXDwCfTHwl0R9ngeyk3nT01z7qVlZx chwAoKyGclq6VQQ2tR9gcXuoAUm+VIED =Y3kR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs--