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From: Alin Nastac <mrness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Around 425 non-existent packages in p.mask?
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:28:47
Message-Id: 43840B7B.9090300@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Around 425 non-existent packages in p.mask? by Marius Mauch
1 Marius Mauch wrote:
2
3 >>If not, i *personally* could go slowly removing the entries, along
4 >>with other people willing to help, or any other _better_ suggestion
5 >>to deal with this?
6 >>
7 >>
8 >
9 >Don't do this without explicitly checking with the maintainer for a
10 >package (if existant). Generally redundant entries in package.mask
11 >don't hurt, so if it's not absolutely clear that the entry is not
12 >needed anymore keep it.
13 >
14 >
15 >
16
17 Hmm.. I fail to see why package.mask shouldn't be cleaned without
18 everyone's consent.
19 Assuming the script is correct, why would you contact the maintainer of
20 package foe when the oldest version in the current tree is bigger than
21 the masked one?

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