Re: [gentoo-dev] [Policy change] Package masking of live ebuilds

[William Hubbs]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 08:52:59PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> The devmanual says about live ebuilds:
>
> | CVS ebuilds must be either with empty KEYWORDS or package.masked
> | (but not both). Empty KEYWORDS are strongly preferred. This applies
> | to "live" ebuilds (-9999) and to ebuilds that extract a static
> | revision but still use CVS for fetching.
>
> As of today, I count 2123 live ebuilds in the Gentoo repository with
> empty KEYWORDS and 1 (one) ebuild with non-empty KEYWORDS but
> package.masked.
>
> So, can we finally make empty KEYWORDS mandatory and drop the part
> about package.masking?

I'm all for this; live ebuilds should have empty keywords and not be in
package.mask.

On a side note, the subject of this thread is somewhat confusing because
it implies that you want to do the opposite. ;-)

William