From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECP7b-00020D-3N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 22:07:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j85M3S46000709; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 22:03:28 GMT Received: from buggy.blubb.ch (range21-65.shlink.ch [217.148.7.65]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j85M1YeY013913 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 22:01:34 GMT Received: from aqua ([192.168.10.5]) by buggy.blubb.ch with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ECP36-0003ud-S4 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:02:44 +0200 Message-ID: <431CC0FE.9090905@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:04:46 +0200 From: Simon Stelling User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] Meaning of p.mask References: <20050904143711.GD23576@dst.grantgoodyear.org> <20050904215931.53b9db51@snowdrop.home> <1125870764.11364.152.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> <200509042012.38859.morfic@gentoo.org> <1125950968.10666.72.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f13af0cd-68d6-48da-b1b8-476467d133a8 X-Archives-Hash: bb9117b9c6da5b4f0a24db61e00cf34a > It's not so much the case that no-one dares try pmasked pkgs. Taking a > quick trip through the forum will turn up many examples of people who do. > But the longstanding policy with masked pkgs is 'this is unsupported - if > it breaks, don't come to us - use at your own risk'. Right now there are > plenty of people using the Gnome 2.12 RC or xorg 6.8.99 or gcc 4 or the > masked utopia stack, but they know better than to file bugs because it > will just be closed as invalid. Personally, the only time i'll file a > bug against a masked package is when i have a patch. I think you have to distinguish between packages beeing in p.mask because they really need a lot of testing and should only be tested by users that are able to fix their system themselves and packages that are in p.mask because they're horribly broken. I filed 4 bugs about gnome 2.12 without adding a single patch, 3 of them got closed a day later. -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead blubb@gentoo.org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list