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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> writes:

> The only reason it's masked is to force as many users as possible to use an 
> earlier version so that it "can receive more testing and get better bug 
> reports", and that was done by Zac himself. There is not a single technical or 
> code quality reason for it to be masked, it's purely a human issue

Though I seem to remember that at the time portage 2.2_rc was masked it
was stated to only be a temporary measure to force more people to test
2.1.6 and that the mask would be removed when 2.1.6 went stable - which
it has been for some while.