On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:11:55 +0200
Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Whichever route we go, there's also the UI question: how do we
> > present this to users in a sensible way?
> 
> The intent is not to anything clever but just mask the package. Intel
> users don't want mesa without support for their card; they simply
> don't want the broken version at all.
> 
> It should be presented alike regular package.mask, with the whole
> atom string.

I'm not sure that it's that simple: what if a user has, say, intel
turned on only because it's on by default in profiles?

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Ciaran McCreesh