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From: Matthew Walker <mwalker@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] XFree-4.2.x and ~x86 bison 1.75
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 21:59:59
Message-Id: 3594.216.190.203.130.1039125546.squirrel@squirrelmail.kydance.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] XFree-4.2.x and ~x86 bison 1.75 by Michael Cummings
1 I think you make a stronger case for ~x86 than he does. ;) package.mask is
2 for truly /broken/ packages. ~x86 is for
3 development/not-ready-for-production packages. Which it sounds like this one
4 definately is.
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6 Michael Cummings said:
7 > Paul,
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9 > Not to quibble over details, but I don't believe the case is that it is
10 > broken on x86, just that other packages that dep it can't use it yet,
11 > awaiting upstream changes (on one end or the other). I know, details
12 > details, but there is a difference between a broken package and a package
13 > that's just ahead of its time.
14 >
15 > On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 09:56:57 +0100
16 > Paul de Vrieze <gentoo-user@××××××××.net> wrote:
17 >
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19 >> In that case it should have the -x86 kewword, as it is broken
20 >>
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