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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] old "masked for testing" entries
From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:38 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> Rich Freeman asked, in another thread, for specific examples of old
> package.mask entries that just have "masked for testing" as the
> description.
>
> Here is what I found with a quick look through package.mask. These
> should be cleaned up by either 1) removing the mask or 2) booting the
> affected packages or versions from the tree.
>

Or 3) Improve the mask message.

For example, I think  the major reason for the sys-libs/db mask is a
weird licensing issue. It's still nice to have it in the tree.