Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Using use.stable.mask
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:39:07
Message-Id: CAMiTYSo8=2aKH2BvBk3-XsXrY5hNQ--ecWPG8-F0LYB9njyqRA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Using use.stable.mask by Ole Markus With
1 On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Ole Markus With
2 <olemarkus@×××××××××.org> wrote:
3 > On 22/08/13 21:27, Zac Medico wrote:
4 >> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Ole Markus With <olemarkus@g.o> wrote:
5 >>> However, now the time has come for php5.5 to be stabilised, and all is
6 >>> working great except that I cannot remove php_targets_php5-5 from
7 >>> use.stable.mask until all arches have stabilised php.
8 >>
9 >> You could have separate use.stable.mask entries in each of the arch profiles.
10 >>
11 >
12 > I was under the impression that these files should be maintained by the
13 > respective arch team. I wanted to avoid depending on them for fixing
14 > before I was able to start adding php_targets_php5-5 to ebuilds.
15
16 Well, you can instruct the arch teams to make appropriate adjustments
17 to their profiles at that same time as adding keywords. They should be
18 able to override the existing global settings.