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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Feature request: package.use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.force
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:09:27
Message-Id: 201204272008.24720.dilfridge@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Feature request: package.use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.force by Michael Haubenwallner
1 Am Freitag 27 April 2012, 11:30:57 schrieb Michael Haubenwallner:
2 > On 04/27/12 00:03, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
3 > > as soon as possible (which likely means in the next EAPI?):
4 > > * two new files in profile directories supported, package.use.stable.mask
5 > > and package.use.stable.force
6 > > * syntax is identical to package.use.mask and package.use.force
7 > > * meaning is identical to package.use.mask and package.use.force, except
8 > > that the resulting rules are ONLY applied iff a stable keyword is in use
9 >
10 > Wouldn't it be more obvious/simple to have an extra profile subdirectory
11 > containing package.use.mask and package.use.force?
12
13 While this works (kind of), it is like running globally stable or globally
14 testing. So, if you run stable but add one package with ~arch keyword, you are
15 restricted to the "stable useflag set" there as well...
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20 Andreas K. Huettel
21 Gentoo Linux developer
22 dilfridge@g.o
23 http://www.akhuettel.de/

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