From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask vs ~arch
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 14:04:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_=qgVaOV4Wk=VxQ4J-5Wmu=Epv7w_c8eabhpOb1L6EOuQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140702195611.5bea8ddc@gentoo.org>
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org> wrote:
> That is an edge case; it's somewhat hard to maintain a package if you
> can't test it, and there are occasions (eg. Amazon EC2 related
> packages) where this is indeed needed. I don't see a need to introduce
> that masked though; but again, it depends on how edgy it is...
>
No argument there. I think that use of package masks for
testing-related purposes should be rare and short-lived. I just don't
think that banning them entirely is the right solution. If they're
done right they probably shouldn't be noticed by the majority.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-02 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-30 4:01 [gentoo-dev] package.mask vs ~arch William Hubbs
2014-06-30 6:04 ` Alexandre Rostovtsev
2014-06-30 18:51 ` [OT] " Tom Wijsman
2014-06-30 8:12 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2014-06-30 18:57 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-06-30 11:29 ` hasufell
2014-06-30 14:11 ` Alexandre Rostovtsev
2014-06-30 14:37 ` Rich Freeman
2014-06-30 15:27 ` Jeroen Roovers
2014-06-30 19:49 ` Joshua Kinard
2014-06-30 20:36 ` Jeroen Roovers
2014-07-02 10:10 ` Peter Stuge
2014-06-30 13:25 ` Rich Freeman
2014-06-30 14:15 ` Jeroen Roovers
2014-06-30 14:48 ` Rich Freeman
2014-06-30 19:11 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-06-30 19:19 ` Rich Freeman
2014-07-02 17:56 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-07-02 18:04 ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2014-07-01 12:41 ` Patrick Lauer
2014-07-01 13:48 ` Rich Freeman
2014-07-05 21:08 ` Greg KH
2014-07-06 13:07 ` hasufell
2014-07-06 19:30 ` William Hubbs
2014-06-30 15:22 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-06-30 15:36 ` Michał Górny
2014-06-30 15:40 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-06-30 16:13 ` Jeroen Roovers
2014-06-30 16:32 ` William Hubbs
2014-06-30 17:07 ` Rich Freeman
2014-06-30 17:49 ` William Hubbs
2014-06-30 19:18 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-06-30 16:40 ` Rich Freeman
2014-06-30 16:55 ` Jeroen Roovers
2014-06-30 19:14 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-06-30 19:44 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-07-02 17:58 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-06-30 21:11 ` Roy Bamford
2014-06-30 20:01 ` Joshua Kinard
2014-06-30 20:50 ` Roy Bamford
2014-08-01 9:13 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2014-08-01 15:19 ` William Hubbs
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