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On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 01:10:02PM +0100, Mikael Hallendal wrote: |
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> Well, it's very much unsolved. Because users don't care about masking |
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> once they've learned how to get around it. As I said before _beta, |
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> masking will only hold back some and tell that it's unstable. But we'll |
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> end up supporting the stuff anyway. |
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This is easily solved. Just put a very clear comment in package.mask around |
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the mask entries stating in no unclear terms that *these packages are not yet |
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supported*, are *for developers only*, and *are very unstable*. *use at your |
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own risk*, *not a good idea* and *you'll regret it later* should do the trick! |
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:) |
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> This is just as the /incoming directory which many users started to use |
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> even though they shouldn't. |
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How so? |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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