Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion related with dropping keywords policy

[Petteri Räty]

On 14.6.2010 5.59, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:29:19 +0200
> Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
>
>> El dom, 13-06-2010 a las 14:43 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió:
>>> El dom, 13-06-2010 a las 14:16 +0300, Petteri Räty escribió:
>>>> On 06/11/2010 12:27 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> From my point of view, I would prefer to:
>>>>> 1. Mask "caps" for net-wireless/bluez on affected arches,
>>>>> letting us to keep bluez keyworded.
>>>>> 2. Open two bug reports as done with current policy: one for
>>>>> keywording libcap-ng and other to check bluez works ok with it
>>>>> asking arch team to unmask that USE flag if possible.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There's nothing preventing you from already doing this.
>>>> package.use.mask is something package maintainers themselves
>>>> should be looking after for their packages.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Petteri
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> OK, thanks a lot :-D
>>
>> The problem is that hppa team seems to not allow others than they to
>> edit their package.use.mask :-/, is there any special reason for it?
>
> What is the problem? The files in place ask you to file a bug report
> instead of fiddling with the files yourselves. I put that in place
> because I got (fucking) tired of seeing the after effects of people
> fiddling with the arch profile files without 1) consideration, 2)
> informing the involved arch team. What do you expect?

If there's a problem with how developers do stuff shouldn't we rather
educate them and make sure new developers are trained so there will not
be many problems? Aren't arch teams overloaded for work already?
package.use.mask is local to a single package so usually there's not a
big need for arch teams to be aware of the entries (unless of course
it's some central package but hopefully their maintainers have due
diligence).

Regards,
Petteri