From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB819138247 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:31:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D34F8E0AA9; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:30:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vms173021pub.verizon.net (vms173021pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.21]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DC01E0AA7 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:30:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.133.162.10] ([unknown] [199.74.155.50]) by vms173021.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0MWM00B80GJE3B70@vms173021.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:30:51 -0600 (CST) Message-id: <528E353A.1000203@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:30:50 -0600 From: Paul Varner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCHES] Remove --autounmask, rename --autounmask-write to --autounmask References: <528DD07E.3010603@plaimi.net> In-reply-to: <528DD07E.3010603@plaimi.net> Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2b4fc038-3edd-4b2d-9aef-2f2676200b18 X-Archives-Hash: 6e86e27e7210a7ec8549b621378730b7 On 11/21/13 03:21, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > After talking to zmedico privately, and raising the issue and > discussing it with people in bug #481578[0], I implemented the > behaviour described in a comment[1] on said bug. > > I sent this to zmedico almost two months ago, but it doesn't look like > he's coming back any time soon, so I'm sending it here and ask someone > to review and commit it (a role zmedico has typically played for me, > as well as being my "mentor" and guide and so on and so forth for > Portage hacking). > > [0] > [1] > I turn off autounmask because I don't find it useful. I have found too many times when it wants me to unmask something that really doesn't need to be unmasked. It is not clear to me from the patches if I can still do that. Regards, Paul