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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Suggestion: Portage should not mask packages globally, but only for some arches
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:35:44
Message-Id: iicik8$hod$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Suggestion: Portage should not mask packages globally, but only for some arches by Christian Faulhammer
1 On 02/02/2011 11:01 PM, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de>:
5 >> On 02/02/2011 10:30 AM, Kacper Kowalik wrote:
6 >>> W dniu 02.02.2011 08:59, Nikos Chantziaras pisze:
7 >>>> It seems that KDE 4.6 is still hard-masked for x86 and amd64
8 >>>> because it's waiting for ppc and ppc64 keywords. I believe it
9 >>>> would be beneficial for people if they wouldn't have to wait for
10 >>>> arches that don't affect them at all.
11 >>>> [...]
12 >
13 > Don't be so impatient...Debian users wait two years for a new major
14 > version of KDE.
15
16 I know. Though Debian is not a rolling-release distro, like Gentoo is.
17 Don't get me wrong though; it's not that I'm impatient. I already
18 unmasked it here. I brought this up simply because it seemed like a
19 needless inefficiency that the popular arches get stalled by the less
20 popular ones. That's all really, so hopefully no one will read more
21 into it than there is.

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