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On 28/02/14 09:59 AM, hasufell wrote: |
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> Samuli Suominen: |
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>> It would be very helpful if INSTALL_MASK could be overriden from |
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>> an ebuild, if user hasn't set otherwise. So it could be |
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>> configured like USE_ORDER which is |
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>> "env:pkg:conf:defaults:pkginternal:repo:env.d" So |
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>> INSTALL_MASK_ORDER like "ebuild:${user's own INSTALL_MASK}" This |
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>> would be very helpful in preventing people from shooting |
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>> themself in the foot |
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>> The only problem is that I propably don't have enough python |
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>> skills to make that happen w/ sys-apps/portage. But does the |
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>> suggestion make sense? Should I open a feature request bug? |
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> Introducing something like INSTALL_MASK_ORDER gives the user |
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> effectively more ways to shoot himself in the foot, especially when |
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> ebuilds start to rely on INSTALL_MASK in non-trivial ways (and I am |
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> sure people will come up with stuff). |
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> Besides that, it is a very intrusive change of behavior. |
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> Anyway... I don't care about people who break their systems in such |
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> stupid ways. It's not more dangerous than one of the other thousand |
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> things you can do to break gentoo, such as "--nodeps". |
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> They gotta handle it. |
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I'm with hasufell here. INSTALL_MASK is a Big Freakin' Hammer; it |
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should stay that way and we should just focus on ensuring users that |
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use it know exactly what they are getting into. |
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That said, what we could do (if this isn't done already) is have |
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portage automatically elog or ewarn what files are excluded from the |
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system on merge time due to the INSTALL_MASK. At least that way, |
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users would be able to see in the log what files were removed, so when |
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something they need -is- removed they'll be able to see that right away. |
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(note, i've never used INSTALL_MASK, so I've no idea what portage reports) |
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