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On 3/14/08, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thursday 13 March 2008, Steve Dibb wrote: |
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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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> i think the real solution here is allowing masking in a package |
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> -mike |
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You want to add a metadata key and cache it you mean? |
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-Alec |
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