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From: Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Suggestion: Portage should not mask packages globally, but only for some arches
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:43:06
Message-Id: 201102022342.25138.tampakrap@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Suggestion: Portage should not mask packages globally, but only for some arches by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Wednesday 02 February 2011 23:34:07 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 02/02/2011 11:01 PM, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
3 > > Hi,
4 > >
5 > > Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de>:
6 > >> On 02/02/2011 10:30 AM, Kacper Kowalik wrote:
7 > >>> W dniu 02.02.2011 08:59, Nikos Chantziaras pisze:
8 > >>>> It seems that KDE 4.6 is still hard-masked for x86 and amd64
9 > >>>> because it's waiting for ppc and ppc64 keywords. I believe it
10 > >>>> would be beneficial for people if they wouldn't have to wait for
11 > >>>> arches that don't affect them at all.
12 > >>>>
13 > >>>> [...]
14 > >
15 > > Don't be so impatient...Debian users wait two years for a new major
16 > >
17 > > version of KDE.
18 >
19 > I know. Though Debian is not a rolling-release distro, like Gentoo is.
20 > Don't get me wrong though; it's not that I'm impatient. I already
21 > unmasked it here. I brought this up simply because it seemed like a
22 > needless inefficiency that the popular arches get stalled by the less
23 > popular ones. That's all really, so hopefully no one will read more
24 > into it than there is.
25
26 For the record, Kacper told me today that every developer is allowed to touch
27 ppc/ppc64 profiles. Archies that don't want others to touch their profiles
28 should mention it in the devmanual. I was not aware of that, I thought that
29 !arch member is not allowed to touch arch-specific profiles. Anyway, KDE 4.6
30 will be unmasked tomorrow.
31 --
32 Theo Chatzimichos (tampakrap)
33 Gentoo KDE/Qt, Planet, Overlays

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