On 11/22/2010 05:30 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
Anyway, there's support for checking dependencies with empty KEYWORDS here:
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=9ed6332f2015e41f072f897764f550c5574ea96f
This is included in =sys-apps/portage-2.1.9.25. Please try it and
On 11/23/10 02:46, Markos Chandras wrote:
Thank you. Like the fellow devs said before, KEYWORDS are there to
indicate whether a package works for an arch or not. Empty keywords
simply means hey, this package is not tested in this arch which is the
exact point of a live ebuild. However, p.mask
On 11/21/2010 09:54 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Alexis Ballier wrote:
Also, for an ebuild with empty KEYWORDS, repoman will not indicate
any problems with dependencies.
by default with a p.mask it doesnt either.
Yes, but it has an option to enable it, whereas there
On 11/22/2010 09:09 AM, Zac Medico wrote:
On 11/21/2010 09:54 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Alexis Ballier wrote:
Also, for an ebuild with empty KEYWORDS, repoman will not indicate
any problems with dependencies.
by default with a p.mask it doesnt either.
Yes, but it has
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 05:30:16PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote:
On 11/22/2010 09:09 AM, Zac Medico wrote:
On 11/21/2010 09:54 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Alexis Ballier wrote:
Also, for an ebuild with empty KEYWORDS, repoman will not indicate
any problems with
Diego,
On 11/21/10 15:29, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
The reason why many of them are in p.mask is usually because _I_ added
them there as they didn't mask with KEYWORDS=, and simply dropping
keywords would have users angry.
Why does KEYWORDS= on live ebuilds make users angry?
Where can I
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 04:22:52PM +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
Diego,
On 11/21/10 15:29, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
The reason why many of them are in p.mask is usually because _I_ added
them there as they didn't mask with KEYWORDS=, and simply dropping
keywords would have users
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 01:00:03PM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote:
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:11:53 +
Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote:
Users interpret this as a 'double masking' which in fact it is since
they need to touch two files before they are able to use the package.
Isn't that
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:11:53 +
Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote:
Users interpret this as a 'double masking' which in fact it is since
they need to touch two files before they are able to use the package.
Isn't that the point? People should be discouraged in every way not to use
On 11/21/10 17:27, Markos Chandras wrote:
Where can I find the rest of this thread?
Ehh, maybe on gentoo archives?
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_4934999b1188cf3ecc53fea784054afb.xml
Is that what you are asking for?
In a way, yes, thanks. Should have thought of looking there. I
On 11/21/10 20:30, Ryan Hill wrote:
Actually not. Users are already familiar with the - concept so there
is no point to add extra obstacles in their way. I am trying to find out
corner cases where double masking makes sense. Otherwise it makes no
sense to me. Actually the majority of users
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 01:30:15PM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote:
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:05:44 +
Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote:
Isn't that the point? People should be discouraged in every way not to
use
live ebuilds. I'd add a third if we had one. :)
But yes, if I
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:05:44 +
Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote:
Isn't that the point? People should be discouraged in every way not to use
live ebuilds. I'd add a third if we had one. :)
But yes, if I had to pick only one I'd go with dropping keywords over
package.mask.
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:10:32PM +, Duncan wrote:
As a user who regularly uses certain live ebuilds (and contrasting SP),
strongly agreed. If the double-masking is confusing them, they're better
off sticking with standard versioned ebuilds as they're demonstrably not
up to dealing
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Alexis Ballier wrote:
Also, for an ebuild with empty KEYWORDS, repoman will not indicate
any problems with dependencies.
by default with a p.mask it doesnt either.
Yes, but it has an option to enable it, whereas there isn't such an
option for empty KEYWORDS.
Ulrich
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