From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D613C138B41 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:10:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E23EA21C00F; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:10:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f52.google.com (mail-ee0-f52.google.com [74.125.83.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BA1CA21C004 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f52.google.com with SMTP id b15so3976548eek.39 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:10:23 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=Wat7ynFz/7im5ZJWHrwae/1WFQIwkg7EJl1E8Ng1ZOo=; b=DJQ7XiEGj3/D00gvlTg+eYZM3XyOULx6RJOqrAa7WCPkY20q+Xjf2QnXXQiE1eyEIt ENvCjU5fH7SbfTBlwWpZ6gJ1u9247ShBUAoTLa4VkoSDWrYlsCgdI17dSX2KB4m7YnDZ JafIZeDxWeItCkE8NVGbsmmetKP/lav2GFXe/mA1Ly71C6DQipDsmzNDSiXmTUP7+Jan EbgC0OMaOCCpaUXjKUh/rVHR7ilHfpoaUDEs5vdlhvDowSXvRCFQ7So3t3zxNaAJ+5+6 3z2XV8jkJSwdtvHS+XTJ3LRDV+RnqX51HibVcxiD/2O0e+GLp/DrUfWwWH2Hm8qm50U+ pjVA== X-Received: by 10.14.193.134 with SMTP id k6mr70527488een.37.1361376623187; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:10:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from saladin.home.flameeyes.eu (adsl-ull-109-154.49-151.net24.it. [151.49.154.109]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t4sm110098499eel.0.2013.02.20.08.10.20 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:10:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5124F561.3080702@flameeyes.eu> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:10:09 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?RGllZ28gRWxpbyBQZXR0ZW7Dsg==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130113 Thunderbird/17.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware References: <1361020086.1920.51.camel@belkin4> <511F8D2E.1080006@flameeyes.eu> <511F9A9F.8040206@gentoo.org> <511F9ADE.2050503@flameeyes.eu> <20767.41371.270947.851486@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <5120654B.6050406@gentoo.org> <20768.43798.568305.561675@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <512389BF.9090504@gentoo.org> <5124CCE9.50203@flameeyes.eu> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmEzadB8ExOlVVQPdgMdUXRL5YinlO/GQ9t5s7VcoyxRJ9POCyf5ncLvNQXkR2TUwLAbjU2 X-Archives-Salt: cfcc9daf-3170-4be9-bb41-e074ae3f5f23 X-Archives-Hash: 39cd1585326e3fd50a92e8ee00ca024a On 20/02/2013 17:03, Rich Freeman wrote: > Dropping > or masking the packages doesn't fix the fact that they require a > network service to install - it just makes it harder to install the > package. The reason why they are masked is because users who want to use a live ebuild will acknowledge that they know it might not install at all. No, we're not going to change this policy, so don't even suggest it -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flameeyes@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/