From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.2 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RDNS_NONE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from winkin.phpwebhosting.com (unknown [64.239.40.196]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 10EAAABBBE for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:47:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: (qmail 9178 invoked by uid 508); 12 Sep 2002 21:47:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gentoo.org) (128.227.197.16) by winkin.phpwebhosting.com with SMTP; 12 Sep 2002 21:47:25 -0000 Message-ID: <3D810ADD.9060308@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:45:01 +0000 From: Doug Goldstein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Burton Samograd , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] masking entire portage directories References: <20020912164028.GH5099@kruhft.dyndns.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.65.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: f9ebf8ec-b030-48f8-b353-59690560103d X-Archives-Hash: 212dacd291b93693bb4ad025e05da2f8 Even if you mask out the directories... emerge will still update and download the ebuilds when you rsync. Masked doesn't mean it's removed. It just means it's hidden from production level systems. People can still install these programs and use them. -- Doug Goldstein Developer (Laptops, WiFi, GCC-3.1) Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/~cardoe/