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From: David Shakaryan <omp@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Automation: Making package.mask better
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:09:43
Message-Id: 46A429FF.2050209@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Automation: Making package.mask better by "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)"
1 Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
2 > Can't we already (automatically) remove masks for which the relevant
3 > ebuilds have been removed? Is there another situation for which you
4 > think this is useful?
5
6 While it might be possible, we currently aren't doing that. It shouldn't
7 be too difficult to implement, but it would have to be semi-smart and
8 check if that package ever existed, as some developers add masks before
9 adding packages and we don't want those automatically removed.
10
11 I have a simple script that outputs all masks that aren't actually
12 masking anything. I run it every once in a while and remove such masks
13 (after, of course, looking at the comments), and this has been working
14 fine so far.
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17 David Shakaryan
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