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From: Thomas Tuttle <gentoo@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Automation: Making package.mask better
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:26:33
Message-Id: 1185204380.26942.1201582859@webmail.messagingengine.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Automation: Making package.mask better by Robert Buchholz
1 On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:38:21 +0200, "Robert Buchholz" <rbu@g.o>
2 said:
3 > 3. We could also introduce some kind of "Keywords" as in Bugzilla to
4 > mark certain situations, as UNUSABLE, SECURITY, LASTRITED. Do we need
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6 I would particularly like this, because it's nice to know why a package
7 has been package.masked. This would make it easier to decide whether I
8 want to unmask things or not. (Perhaps some sort of ACCEPT_MASKED
9 variable could be set up, so I could choose to accept packages with
10 certain types of problems, with the knowledge that they might break.)
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12 Just my $0.02,
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14 Thomas Tuttle
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