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From: Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 20:34:20
Message-Id: 20180325093340.4237c829@katipo2.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny by Zac Medico
1 On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 11:27:20 -0700
2 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > The defaults certainly do not work perfectly in all situations. However,
5 > there are a vast number of situations where using --autounmask-continue
6 > will make appropriate package.mask changes without the need for any user
7 > intervention.
8
9 Its really handy for use flags.
10
11 Its really handy for mixed arch/~arch where it promotes arch to ~arch as needed.
12
13 Its really really bad however to have a default of accepting ** and
14 package.unmask as a primary go-to solution.
15
16 That default gets people using broken openssl and experimental packages
17 blindly without them ever having intended on getting into experimental
18 waters.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>