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On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:17:24 -0500 |
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Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |
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> Hash: SHA1 |
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> I figured it was time for a bit of cleaning... I ended up writing a |
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> really crappy script for stable to do a check of whether package.mask |
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> entries were really referencing anything or not. Luckily Brian was |
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> able to write a much better one for bcportage. |
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Why are people so obsessed with cleaning package.mask all the time? |
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Sure makes sense to remove three year old unused entries from time to |
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time, but not everything that isn't actively used is invalid |
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automatically (quite sure that kde-3.5.1 stuff is a preventive mask |
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for example). |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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