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From: Dhruba Bandopadhyay <dhruba@codewordt.co.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] i hate KEYWORDS=-*
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:17:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F27E19D.1050700@codewordt.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307301039.24918.vapier@gentoo.org>

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> what i propose is that people who make ebuilds with KEYWORDS=-* add in an 
> extra little word, namely 'pleasebreakme'.  that is, from now on, have it 
> read:
> KEYWORDS="-* pleasebreakme"
> that way i can do ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=pleasebreakme and get access to these 
> packages.

 From a user perspective I don't see anything wrong with the way 
KEYWORDS are handled currently.

However, if you must make a change please don't use a keyword as casual 
and mocking as 'pleasebreakme'.  Make it something distinct like 
'unstable' or something.  Just some thoughts.


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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-30 14:39 [gentoo-dev] i hate KEYWORDS=-* Mike Frysinger
2003-07-30 15:17 ` Dhruba Bandopadhyay [this message]
2003-07-30 22:38   ` Mike Frysinger
2003-08-05  0:12 ` Matt Rickard

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