From: Michael Everitt <gentoo@veremit.xyz>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org,
gentoo-portage-dev <gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Disable --autounmask auto-unmasking keywords / masks by default
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 04:35:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c66c937-072d-03b3-49be-81e598198ae7@veremit.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191010155705.2bf1479b@katipo2.lan>
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On 10/10/19 03:57, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 19:45:34 -0700
> Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> I'd prefer to disable --autounmask by default and include warnings about
>> harmful behavior in the documentation.
> I think autounmasks behaviour with regards to USE flags is useful,
> (heh), its just everything else it does tends to violate stability
> assumptions.
>
> For instance, I can see why automatically escalating "arch" to "~arch"
> may be useful in some cases, but its a very dangerous default,
> *especially* for perl.
Is there any mileage in something as ridiculous as AUTOUNMASK_EXCLUDES ?
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-09 23:53 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Disable --autounmask auto-unmasking keywords / masks by default Kent Fredric
2019-10-10 2:45 ` Zac Medico
2019-10-10 2:57 ` Kent Fredric
2019-10-10 3:35 ` Michael Everitt [this message]
2019-10-10 3:39 ` Kent Fredric
2019-10-10 8:09 ` Zac Medico
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