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From: Jean-Marc Beaune <jm.beaune@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Why KNetworkManager has been masked for so long?
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:35:26
Message-Id: 8349216a0903200735i7193f074p1e84345467e8ce05@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Why KNetworkManager has been masked for so long? by Dale
1 Ok, but if we look for Amarok,
2 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=amarok , there's a bunch of
3 bugs for this application but it's not masked.
4
5 And again, I'm just curious, I only wondered if there was something
6 specifically bad with it.
7
8 On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
9
10 > Jean-Marc Beaune wrote:
11 > > Hi,
12 > >
13 > > I've been thinking to move to KNetworkManager for a while (more than
14 > > one year) and seeing that it's always masked didn't make me confident
15 > > (I run as much as I can a stable arch).
16 > > But finally I migrated from baselayout management to KNetworkManager
17 > > few days ago and it seems to work quite well (not a long experience
18 > > though).
19 > >
20 > > Hence, the question, I'm just curious.
21 > >
22 > > Thank you.
23 > >
24 > > P.S.: I used
25 > > [url=http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/KNetworkManager]this[/url
26 > > <http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/KNetworkManager%5Dthis%5B/url>] howto
27 > > and it went just fine.
28 > >
29 > > --
30 > > Jean-Marc
31 > >
32 >
33 >
34 > Here is some reading materials:
35 >
36 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=knetworkmanager
37 >
38 > I think this is the one that has it masked:
39 >
40 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253788
41 >
42 > Comment number 2 mentions this is why it is masked among other reasons.
43 >
44 > Most of the time if something is masked, there is a bug for it. Just
45 > search for it. Resolved bugs should not make a package be masked but
46 > open ones can.
47 >
48 > Hope that helps.
49 >
50 > Dale
51 >
52 > :-) :-)
53 >
54 >
55
56
57 --
58 Jean-Marc

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Re: [gentoo-desktop] Why KNetworkManager has been masked for so long? Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>