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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-qa@l.g.o
Cc: Steve Dibb <beandog@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-qa] splitting up package.mask
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:54:31
Message-Id: b41005390803140754o6b54c93bve27fa69271987170@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-qa] splitting up package.mask by Mike Frysinger
1 On 3/14/08, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Thursday 13 March 2008, Steve Dibb wrote:
3 > > Because package.mask in CVS for profiles is so huge, I think it might
4 > > help it to get organized if we split it up a bit.
5 > >
6 > > halcyon had a good idea for the scheme: testing, broken, removal. That
7 > > seems to sum up the main 3 reason that a package would be masked.
8 > >
9 > > Right now there are 679 entries in package.mask. The reason I came up
10 > > with the idea was to find a way to make it easier for treecleaners to
11 > > quickly see which ones they were working on.
12 > >
13 > > I'd like to take the discussion to -dev but wanted to get QA's thoughts
14 > > first. I haven't looked into whether or not this is technically
15 > > feasible at all.
16 >
17 >
18 > i think the real solution here is allowing masking in a package
19 >
20 > -mike
21 >
22 >
23
24 You want to add a metadata key and cache it you mean?
25
26 -Alec
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Re: [gentoo-qa] splitting up package.mask Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>