Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

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On 03/24/2018 01:33 PM, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 11:27:20 -0700
> Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> The defaults certainly do not work perfectly in all situations. However,
>> there are a vast number of situations where using --autounmask-continue
>> will make appropriate package.mask changes without the need for any user
>> intervention.
> 
> Its really handy for use flags.
> 
> Its really handy for mixed arch/~arch where it promotes arch to ~arch as needed.
> 
> Its really really bad however to have a default of accepting ** and
> package.unmask as a primary go-to solution.

That only happens when dependency satisfaction fails by normal means.

> That default gets people using broken openssl and experimental packages
> blindly without them ever having intended on getting into experimental
> waters.

If people can't be bothered to understand the meaning of package.mask
and keywords changes, should they really be using Gentoo?
-- 
Thanks,
Zac


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