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From: Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] OT noise (Was: Profile masking and profiles package.mask)
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:45:30
Message-Id: 451EABAD.9030900@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] OT noise (Was: Profile masking and profiles package.mask) by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Saturday 30 September 2006 13:02, Jakub Moc wrote:
3 >> Eh, the whole technical point here is that paludis behaviour differs
4 >> from portage (and differs from pkgcore, FWIW).
5 >
6 > the technical point is what is the expected behavior of the packages file ...
7 > seems silly to duplicate masking across two different files
8 >
9 > what have you offered to this discussion ? nothing: so sit back and let the
10 > people who actually work on this stuff handle it
11 > -mike
12
13 It's not duplicating, exactly the opposite. Sticking the stuff into
14 per-profile package.mask is duplicating the information, because portage
15 handles it just fine without any such duplication (that's the whole
16 point of Flameeyes' original mail).
17
18 Now if you want to change this, nothing wrong with that except when
19 someone goes moaning to bugzilla and QA starts messing with the profiles
20 without any discussion. This is not a QA issue.
21
22 If you want to change this behaviour, go provide some reason why it
23 should be done and either you persuade the folks involved or not. In
24 addition, those two kinds of masking (masked by profile vs. masked by
25 package.mask) are not duplicating each other, they behave quite differently.
26
27 For the rest, sorry but replies as "stop wasting everyone's time" or
28 "sit back and let people who actually work do it" as not much polite and
29 don't offer anything to this discussion either.
30
31 Thanks.
32
33 --
34 Best regards,
35
36 Jakub Moc
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42 ... still no signature ;)

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