Re: [gentoo-dev] proposed shift of files in the tree of non profiles files into seperate dir

[Fernando J. Pereda]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 01:17:50PM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> On 27/8/2005 10:42:25, Brian Harring (ferringb@g.o) wrote:
> > Hola all.
> >
> > Straight to the point, I'm proposing that the following files-
> > arch.list
> > categories
> > use.desc
> > use.local.desc
> > package.mask
> > updates
> >
> > be moved out of the profiles directory in the tree
>
> Not sure about package.mask.  I thought that was part of the profile,
> as different profiles might package.mask separately.  I know I use it
> in /etc/profile to postpone updates.

In fact the arch teams use it to mask packages that won't work on a
particular profile/arch. If package.mask is removed from the profiles
directory does it mean we won't be able to do that anymore ?

Cheers,
Ferdy

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