On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 09:35:27 -0500 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > I would like to ask about adding "systemd" USE flag to use.stable.mask > > to let us stop needing to revbump packages with optional systemd support > > when stabilizing them. > > > > Are you ok with that? > > Am I interpreting the impacts of this correctly? I believe this would > mean that if you ran systemd on an otherwise-stable system (that is, > only systemd and possibly udev are in package.keywords) then you won't > get systemd support in any of your other packages, even if it is > available in a stable version of that package? My only VM running > systemd just happens to be in that configuration, but I'm willing to > admit that I'm a bit of an edge case. :) > > Why exactly do we need to revbump packages with optional systemd > support when stabilizing them in the first place? ~arch users would > already have systemd support compiled if they use it, and stable users > would get it when it is stabilized. > > I freely admit that there might be some nuance that I'm simply not > getting here... You have to stable-unmask it in your /etc/portage/profile: use.stable.mask: -systemd -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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