Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

[Rich Freeman]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 5:01 AM, Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:02:20 +0100
> Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
>
>> ...except that it is also used to say 'this is experimental version,
>> unmask at will' and Portage wants to unmask stuff for you anyway. Well,
>> I mean the default configuration of Portage, not mine.
>
> Yeah, that default I find incredibly stupid tbh.
>
> Auto-unmask use works nicely. Autounmask for package.mask and
> accept_keywords is just madness I'd love to see stopped.
>

It can be useful, though obviously I review what is proposed before
merging the config changes.

I wouldn't put masks and keywords in the same bucket.  A mask
typically means that something is known to cause problems, while
missing keywords typically just means that it isn't known to work yet.
People running mixed-keywords will find themselves accepting keywords
a fair bit.


-- 
Rich