[gentoo-portage-dev] Extended package.mask

["Fabian Zeindl" <fabian@xover.htu.tuwien.ac.at>]

Hi

I'm using gentoo and the best package manager of the world for over one year
now, and I'm quite satisfied :-).
One idea I had: I regularly stumble across ebuilds which are masked in
package.mask because they break certain other packages or something like that.
It would be genial if portage wouldn't just say
"this ebuild is masked cause it breaks XYZ", but detect whether I have XYZ
installed and warns me if so resp. emerges normally otherwise. If I install
package XYZ some time later portage must of course detect this and say "you
have package ABC installed, which makes problem with the package you wan't to
install now, what do you want to do?".

Is this an insane idea? It would make portage even better if it could resolve
situations/environments/configurations where emerging/unmerging something will
cause problems.

greetings
fabian zeindl

PS: The second question I want to ask: Why are some packages so long marked ~
unstable when their upstream is stable. Is there a policy how long to mark new
ebuilds or something like that?

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