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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:22:04 +1300
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask
From: Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com>
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On 14 November 2013 09:21, James Potts <arek75@gmail.com> wrote:
> To be honest, I think that printing a summary of masked useflags which
> contradict a user's settings in USE= at the end of the pretend/ask portion
> of an emerge would be a step in the right direction. Making it so that
> portage bails with an error if package.use conflicts with use.(package.)mask
> would also be helpful if this doesn't already happen. Not sure how much
> trouble this would be to add, tho, honestly.
+1 to that, I was going to suggest something similar to help explain
what "~(foo)" means at least till people get used to it
e.g.
---
The Following Use Flags were user set, but ignored due to stability masks:
dev-baz/quux: +foo -bar +baz
man emerge and grep for "stable use masks"
---
Or something. Maybe only shown with -v , or something so its not too
annoying if users are ok with ignoring it.
--
Kent