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From: "Alec Warner" <antarus@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-qa] splitting up package.mask
Cc: "Steve Dibb" <beandog@gentoo.org>
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On 3/14/08, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 13 March 2008, Steve Dibb wrote:
> > Because package.mask in CVS for profiles is so huge, I think it might
> > help it to get organized if we split it up a bit.
> >
> > halcyon had a good idea for the scheme: testing, broken, removal. That
> > seems to sum up the main 3 reason that a package would be masked.
> >
> > Right now there are 679 entries in package.mask. The reason I came up
> > with the idea was to find a way to make it easier for treecleaners to
> > quickly see which ones they were working on.
> >
> > I'd like to take the discussion to -dev but wanted to get QA's thoughts
> > first. I haven't looked into whether or not this is technically
> > feasible at all.
>
>
> i think the real solution here is allowing masking in a package
>
> -mike
>
>
You want to add a metadata key and cache it you mean?
-Alec
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