* [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Disable --autounmask auto-unmasking keywords / masks by default
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@ 2019-10-10 3:35 ` Michael Everitt
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From: Michael Everitt @ 2019-10-10 3:35 UTC (permalink / raw
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On 10/10/19 03:57, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 19:45:34 -0700
> Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> I'd prefer to disable --autounmask by default and include warnings about
>> harmful behavior in the documentation.
> I think autounmasks behaviour with regards to USE flags is useful,
> (heh), its just everything else it does tends to violate stability
> assumptions.
>
> For instance, I can see why automatically escalating "arch" to "~arch"
> may be useful in some cases, but its a very dangerous default,
> *especially* for perl.
Is there any mileage in something as ridiculous as AUTOUNMASK_EXCLUDES ?
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