From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11758 invoked by uid 1002); 30 Jul 2003 15:18:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 16576 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2003 15:18:16 -0000 Message-ID: <3F27E19D.1050700@codewordt.co.uk> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:17:49 +0100 From: Dhruba Bandopadhyay Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030729 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <200307301039.24918.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200307301039.24918.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] i hate KEYWORDS=-* X-Archives-Salt: a6807cce-ab4d-49e4-ae05-b8d7eafd680d X-Archives-Hash: 11f8980cb3007ab21c01a7456b40bbb1 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. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list