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> > I beg to differ ... I did this with media-gfx/povray and after |
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> > every "emerge sync" I get .... |
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> > # emerge -pu povray |
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>My apologies, I thought that the local ebuilds were NOT checked |
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>against packages.mask. |
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>I've just tried the same thing as you, with the same results. |
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>It would make sense (to me anyway) if the local ebuilds in |
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>$PORTDIR_OVERLAY were *NOT* checked against packages.mask, that |
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>way us end users could assist the developers by simply dropping |
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>masked ebuilds into our local tree and then testing them. Sure |
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>it means that there is duplication and some extra hard drive space |
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>taken up, but ebuilds aren't that big. Also for those wishing to |
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>test ebuilds it would be a conscious decision to place a masked |
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>ebuild in your local tree. |
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>Maybe I should submit a bug about this. Any devs care to comment? |
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I'm not a dev but I agree, packages.mask should not affect the local |
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directory. |
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