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On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:57:55 -0700 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> |
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| It does seem appealing to unify the package.use.mask and |
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| package.use.force functionality into a single file that acts like |
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| package.mask with use-deps support. If we do it this way, devs won't |
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| be able to start using package.use.mask until a new implementation is |
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| ready. AFAIK Paludis already has support for separate |
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| package.use.mask and package.use.force, so they'd have to change |
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| their implementation to be compatible with the new unified format. |
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No, we already allow [use] deps in package.mask. It's just that using |
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this in place of {package.,}use.{mask,force} is a really really bad |
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idea and will massively hurt non-x86 users. Getting "all masked" errors |
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for this kind of thing instead of having the package manager handle it |
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is a huge step backwards. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk |
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