On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 07:33:12PM +0100, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > William Hubbs <[email protected]>: > > > * Masking live... > > > Heck no. This is not proper usage. Just use keywords mask. > > > KEYWORDS="". Problem solved and the package.mask is smaller. (Note, > > > in overlays do what ever you want, since it does not polute the > > > main mask from g-x86). > > > > True. If we mask live ebuilds with KEYWORDS="", there isn't a reason > > to put them in p.mask that I can think of. > > Many users use "**" in their p.keywords file and get a live ebuild > then. If a user runs ~arch even for one package, they should be able to recover if things break temporarily. So, if they are putting ** in their package.keywords for packages, that is another level past ~arch to me. They should definitely be able to recover in that situation.
-- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead [email protected]
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