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On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:40:19 -0400
Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 30/06/14 11:36 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Dnia 2014-06-30, o godz. 11:22:07 Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org>
> > napisał(a):
> > 
> >> Here's a great example of this -- dev-libs/nss-3.16-r1 is
> >> p.masked by me for testing, because when I converted it to
> >> multilib i needed to change the way it does some internal ABI
> >> determination tests, and although I know it does work fine on
> >> multilib-amd64 and (non-multilib) x86, I am not confident without
> >> more testing that it will work for cross-compiles or other
> >> non-multilib arches.  As such, it -is- in the tree, but I've
> >> masked it until I can test it myself in these circumstances or
> >> find someone else that can do it for me.
> > 
> > But... if you unmask it, someone will test it and report whether
> > it works :P.
> > 
> 
> But... if I unmask it, -everyone- using ~arch will install it and
> it'll break all the systems that it doesn't work on, which -could- be
> quite a lot at this point.  :D

Setting up an overlay for this and poking a stick at a few developers to
try it out could help as an intermediary test, to ensure that you don't
break every ~arch user in the progress. Better than "all or nothing"...

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With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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