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From: Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:34:03
Message-Id: 20091107193312.5df04226@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] QA: package.mask policies by William Hubbs
1 Hi,
2
3 William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>:
4 > > * Masking live...
5 > > Heck no. This is not proper usage. Just use keywords mask.
6 > > KEYWORDS="". Problem solved and the package.mask is smaller. (Note,
7 > > in overlays do what ever you want, since it does not polute the
8 > > main mask from g-x86).
9 >
10 > True. If we mask live ebuilds with KEYWORDS="", there isn't a reason
11 > to put them in p.mask that I can think of.
12
13 Many users use "**" in their p.keywords file and get a live ebuild
14 then.
15
16 V-Li
17
18 --
19 Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
20 <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode
21
22 <URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/>

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
[gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>