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From: "Luis F. Araujo" <araujo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Around 425 non-existent packages in p.mask?
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 04:49:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43842D15.7050102@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43840B7B.9090300@gentoo.org>

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.
>>
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
Thanks for everyone's suggestions. I am gonna tweak even more the script.

I only don't see any reason to keep non-existent entries there.
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-23  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-23  2:18 [gentoo-dev] Around 425 non-existent packages in p.mask? Luis F. Araujo
2005-11-23  2:23 ` warnera6
2005-11-23  2:31 ` Marcus D. Hanwell
2005-11-23  3:44   ` Luis F. Araujo
2005-11-23  4:05 ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-11-23  9:30   ` Paul de Vrieze
2005-11-23  4:09 ` Marius Mauch
2005-11-23  6:26   ` Alin Nastac
2005-11-23  8:49     ` Luis F. Araujo [this message]
2005-11-23 14:58     ` Marius Mauch
2005-11-23 16:50       ` Luis F. Araujo
2005-11-23  4:29 ` Tuan Van
2005-11-23 10:52   ` Mike Frysinger
2005-11-23 10:58     ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-11-23 16:45     ` Luis F. Araujo
2005-11-23  6:17 ` Chris White

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