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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev]  Re: QA: package.mask policies
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 13:17:03 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2009.11.09.13.17.02@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20091108161322.19cf8845@gentoo.org

Christian Faulhammer posted on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:13:22 +0100 as
excerpted:

> Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>:
>> 1) Users using ** in their package.keywords file should know enough
>> about what they're doing to use their own package.mask, as well.  If
>> they're using ** in the keywords file, they're /saying/ they're reading
>> to handle such things, after all, why shouldn't we let them?
> 
>  They do it, because they don't know what they are doing.  Just seen it
> somewhere, heard about it.  During LinuxTag the question why ** unmasks
> some live ebuilds occured at least three times.

Real user question numbers like that are useful to know.  Thanks.  Sure 
beats general hand-wavy arguments (like mine too, was). =:^)

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman




  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-09 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-07 17:24 [gentoo-dev] QA: package.mask policies Tomáš Chvátal
2009-11-07 18:03 ` William Hubbs
2009-11-07 18:33   ` [gentoo-dev] " Christian Faulhammer
2009-11-07 18:56     ` William Hubbs
2009-11-07 19:03     ` Duncan
2009-11-08  0:08       ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-11-08  1:25         ` Duncan
2009-11-08 23:46           ` Vlastimil Babka
2009-11-08  1:26         ` Kent Fredric
2009-11-08 15:13       ` Christian Faulhammer
2009-11-09 13:17         ` Duncan [this message]
2009-11-08 12:41 ` [gentoo-dev] " Peter Volkov
2009-11-08 16:57 ` Jeroen Roovers
2009-11-08 17:20   ` Tomáš Chvátal
2009-11-11 16:43     ` Jeroen Roovers
2009-11-11 17:11       ` [gentoo-dev] " Torsten Veller
2009-11-11 21:54         ` Jeroen Roovers

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