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Hey guys, |
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I have an idea I'd like to run by the QA team. |
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For a user's portage preferences, we can have /etc/package.mask be a |
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file or a directory of files (package.mask/*) that will cumulatively |
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create the same effect. |
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Because package.mask in CVS for profiles is so huge, I think it might |
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help it to get organized if we split it up a bit. |
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halcyon had a good idea for the scheme: testing, broken, removal. That |
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seems to sum up the main 3 reason that a package would be masked. |
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Right now there are 679 entries in package.mask. The reason I came up |
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with the idea was to find a way to make it easier for treecleaners to |
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quickly see which ones they were working on. |
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I'd like to take the discussion to -dev but wanted to get QA's thoughts |
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first. I haven't looked into whether or not this is technically |
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feasible at all. |
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Steve |
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