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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman default
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 20:12:06
Message-Id: 20130625161155.035a75ea@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman default by Zac Medico
1 On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:33:21 -0700
2 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 06/25/2013 07:47 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
5 > > On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 01:40:38 -0400
6 > > Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@g.o> wrote:
7 > >
8 > >> repoman should default to the -I behavior: discuss.
9 > >
10 > >
11 > > wont this disable important regular checks also?
12 >
13 > The -I (--ignore-masked) option only disables dependency checks for
14 > masked "parent" packages.
15 >
16 > > foo is masked by package.mask, bar depends on foo. repoman -I wont
17 > > catch a broken dep in bar.
18 >
19 > No, we don't currently have an option like that, and I don't think we
20 > want one like that.
21 >
22 > > IMHO it should do the -I check in addition to the current ones and
23 > > print warnings/errors.
24 >
25 > The -I option only disables checks that are normally enabled.
26
27 ooops yes, thanks. I got confused and thought it was --without-mask...
28
29 Alexis.