Re: [gentoo-dev] old "masked for testing" entries

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 04:46:04PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:38 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Rich Freeman asked, in another thread, for specific examples of old
> > package.mask entries that just have "masked for testing" as the
> > description.
> >
> > Here is what I found with a quick look through package.mask. These
> > should be cleaned up by either 1) removing the mask or 2) booting the
> > affected packages or versions from the tree.
> >
> 
> Or 3) Improve the mask message.
>
> For example, I think  the major reason for the sys-libs/db mask is a
> weird licensing issue. It's still nice to have it in the tree.

If there is a weird licensing issue, it would be better to get
the answers needed to resolve that issue and remove the mask.

p.mask should never be permanent.

William

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