Re: [gentoo-desktop] Why KNetworkManager has been masked for so long?

[Dale]

Jean-Marc Beaune wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been thinking to move to KNetworkManager for a while (more than
> one year) and seeing that it's always masked didn't make me confident
> (I run as much as I can a stable arch).
> But finally I migrated from baselayout management to KNetworkManager
> few days ago and it seems to work quite well (not a long experience
> though).
>
> Hence, the question, I'm just curious.
>
> Thank you.
>
> P.S.: I used
> [url=http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/KNetworkManager]this[/url
> <http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/KNetworkManager%5Dthis%5B/url>] howto
> and it went just fine.
>
> --
> Jean-Marc
>


Here is some reading materials:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=knetworkmanager

I think this is the one that has it masked:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253788

Comment number 2 mentions this is why it is masked among other reasons. 

Most of the time if something is masked, there is a bug for it.  Just
search for it.  Resolved bugs should not make a package be masked but
open ones can.

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)