* Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] package masking too conservative?
@ 2003-08-07 6:37 99% ` Jani Monoses
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From: Jani Monoses @ 2003-08-07 6:37 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Chris Gianelloni; +Cc: gentoo-dev
> > crowd actually provides feedback to their development. More like
> > those RPM based distros :)
> >
> > Especially because many tools I find are undeservingly masked are
> > developer oriented so there's a greater chance feedback will be sane
> > and prompt.
> >
> > I'd propose to loosen this policy a bit, but then again who am I?
> >
> > Jani
> >
> > cc: please
> >
> >
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> > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
>
> Just my quick .02...
>
> You can always mask packages which are ~arch. After all, ~arch is the
> "testing" branch in Gentoo, and not really considered an "unstable"
> branch. If you're willing to participate in testing, then you should
> probably have KEYWORDS=~arch in your /etc/make.conf anyway. The
I'd like to test/use latest versions of most packages but not the latest
glibc for instance or something which might destabilize the whole
system. They are both under the same hat with the current ~arch setup.
Also if only packages with no bugs in them should be stable then
probably only /bin/yes, /bin/false, /bin/true and TeX would make it :)
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