On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 08:52:59PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > The devmanual says about live ebuilds: > > | CVS ebuilds must be either with empty KEYWORDS or package.masked > | (but not both). Empty KEYWORDS are strongly preferred. This applies > | to "live" ebuilds (-9999) and to ebuilds that extract a static > | revision but still use CVS for fetching. > > As of today, I count 2123 live ebuilds in the Gentoo repository with > empty KEYWORDS and 1 (one) ebuild with non-empty KEYWORDS but > package.masked. > > So, can we finally make empty KEYWORDS mandatory and drop the part > about package.masking?
I'm all for this; live ebuilds should have empty keywords and not be in package.mask. On a side note, the subject of this thread is somewhat confusing because it implies that you want to do the opposite. ;-) William
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