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William Hubbs posted on Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:03:34 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> If users do not want python-3 on |
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> their systems, that is what /etc/portage/package.mask is for. |
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I think pretty much everyone agrees with that. What we're debating is |
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whether the stabling news item should specifically mention package.mask as |
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an option before it goes stable. |
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Fortunately or unfortunately, despite the stated Gentoo policy of |
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"documentation but not hand holding", stable Gentoo users are in fact used |
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to having a bit of extra hand-holding and have come to expect it. While |
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the generally given reason for said hand-holding is that we're simply |
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avoiding the flood of bugs we'd otherwise get, and arguably that doesn't |
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apply in this case (arguably, because there are still and will be new |
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python dependency bugs that this will trigger), it's an expectation stable |
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users have come to have, and failing to specifically mention the |
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package.mask option violates this expectation. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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