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 1EextK-0006SL-FO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:54:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jANGrYTd004047; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:53:34 GMT Received: from rs25s9.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (rs25s9.datacenter.cha.cantv.net [200.44.33.101]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jANGoDFm006963 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:50:14 GMT Received: from dC9D12581.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net (dC9D12581.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net [201.209.37.129]) by rs25s9.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (8.13.4/8.13.0/3.0) with ESMTP id jANGoCNS028196 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:50:12 -0400 X-Matched-Lists: [] Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by dC9D12581.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Eexou-0002fr-Td for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:50:08 -0400 Message-ID: <43849DC0.7070003@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:50:08 -0400 From: "Luis F. Araujo" Organization: Gentoo inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051030) 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> <43840B7B.9090300@gentoo.org> <20051123155842.37c76dad@sven.genone.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20051123155842.37c76dad@sven.genone.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on rs25s9.datacenter.cha.cantv.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: 0c304129-d1a8-445d-b2ce-9e24c4e99dbf X-Archives-Hash: dc0db08ce768f184d825e067d3aacfa6 Marius Mauch wrote: >On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:26:03 +0200 >Alin Nastac wrote: > > > >>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? >> >> > >Because there are more scenarios than the one you see. > >Marius > > > That's precisely why i m asking for every dev taking care of their own scenarios *if possible*. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list