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From: Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:14:14
Message-Id: 20091108161322.19cf8845@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA: package.mask policies by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 Hi,
2
3 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>:
4 > 1) Users using ** in their package.keywords file should know enough
5 > about what they're doing to use their own package.mask, as well. If
6 > they're using ** in the keywords file, they're /saying/ they're
7 > reading to handle such things, after all, why shouldn't we let them?
8
9 They do it, because they don't know what they are doing. Just seen it
10 somewhere, heard about it. During LinuxTag the question why ** unmasks
11 some live ebuilds occured at least three times.
12
13 V-Li
14
15 --
16 Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
17 <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode
18
19 <URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/>

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