On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > That is an edge case; it's somewhat hard to maintain a package if you > can't test it, and there are occasions (eg. Amazon EC2 related > packages) where this is indeed needed. I don't see a need to introduce > that masked though; but again, it depends on how edgy it is... >
No argument there. I think that use of package masks for testing-related purposes should be rare and short-lived. I just don't think that banning them entirely is the right solution. If they're done right they probably shouldn't be noticed by the majority. Rich
