On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:11 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 12:24:12PM -0500, Mike Pagano wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 12:14:23PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:11 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 11:21:56AM -0500, Mike Pagano wrote: >> > >> On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:47:10PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: >> > >> > All, >> > >> > >> > >> > If you remove the mask, users will no longer be warned that they are >> > using a flawed copy of the kernel sources. >> > >> > Thus, Mike's question about timing. >> > >> >> Exactly. > > This should be a different thread then since this wasn't in the list I > originally posted. > > However, > > this is considered an invalid package.mask entry since the package that > was being masked is no longer in the tree [1].
Regardless of what repoman says, the mask entry is still useful. The repoman warning serves as a nice reminder, but please don't treat it as policy.
