Re: [gentoo-dev] Around 425 non-existent packages in p.mask?

["Luis F. Araujo" <araujo@gentoo.org>]

Marius Mauch wrote:

>On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:26:03 +0200
>Alin Nastac <mrness@gentoo.org> wrote:
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>>Marius Mauch wrote:
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>>>>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?
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>>>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.
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>>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?
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>Because there are more scenarios than the one you see.
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>Marius
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That's precisely why i m asking for every dev taking care of
their own scenarios *if possible*.
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