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 4.50) id 1Eeo7a-00041V-Oy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:28:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAN6S5Yg009784; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:28:05 GMT Received: from mail.ineton.ro (mail.ineton.ro [217.156.27.7]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAN6QHSn013757 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:26:17 GMT Received: (qmail 23172 invoked by uid 210); 23 Nov 2005 08:26:15 +0200 Received: from 217.156.27.36 by hera (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (bitdefender: v7.0/2490/234106. spamassassin: 3.0.4. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(217.156.27.36):. Processed in 0.886995 secs); 23 Nov 2005 06:26:15 -0000 Received: from tg-neamt1.ineton.ro (HELO ?217.156.27.36?) (mrness@217.156.27.36) by mail.ineton.ro with ESMTPA; 23 Nov 2005 08:26:14 +0200 Message-ID: <43840B7B.9090300@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:26:03 +0200 From: Alin Nastac Organization: Gentoo Foundation User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051027) 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] Around 425 non-existent packages in p.mask? References: <4383D172.9090902@gentoo.org> <20051123050912.1befb439@sven.genone.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20051123050912.1befb439@sven.genone.homeip.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB04589CBF4FF94A67E0D2F09" X-Archives-Salt: 55070a5d-2656-4d00-8d3e-d64fb5192c11 X-Archives-Hash: 579e5fb1391f99cbeb07658ef1ed68fe This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB04589CBF4FF94A67E0D2F09 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Marius Mauch wrote: >>If not, i *personally* could go slowly removing the entries, along >>with other people willing to help, or any other _better_ suggestion >>to deal with this? >> >> > >Don't do this without explicitly checking with the maintainer for a >package (if existant). Generally redundant entries in package.mask >don't hurt, so if it's not absolutely clear that the entry is not >needed anymore keep it. > > > Hmm.. I fail to see why package.mask shouldn't be cleaned without everyone's consent. Assuming the script is correct, why would you contact the maintainer of package foe when the oldest version in the current tree is bigger than the masked one? --------------enigB04589CBF4FF94A67E0D2F09 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDhAuARZBYwhawvi4RAoueAJ9u+0Pwz1IW1OpfeRU9hySlOIdObACeJuPB +VlbN5RufZ+Di46yfZH2chw= =uNU4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB04589CBF4FF94A67E0D2F09-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list