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From: Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>
Subject: Re: QA: package.mask policies
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:33:12 +0100
Hi,

William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>:
> > * Masking live...
> > Heck no. This is not proper usage. Just use keywords mask.
> > KEYWORDS="". Problem solved and the package.mask is smaller. (Note,
> > in overlays do what ever you want, since it does not polute the
> > main mask from g-x86).
>  
>  True.  If we mask live ebuilds with KEYWORDS="", there isn't a reason
>  to put them in p.mask that I can think of.

 Many users use "**" in their p.keywords file and get a live ebuild
then.

V-Li

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