Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask vs ~arch

[Jeroen Roovers]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:40:19 -0400
Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:

> But... if I unmask it, -everyone- using ~arch will install it and
> it'll break all the systems that it doesn't work on, which -could- be
> quite a lot at this point.  :D

Which is great, because then you have an actual test result, whereas
before you had nothing but a stupid mask.

And lots of people are suddenly very much interested in getting any and
all bugs fixed in the new ebuild, whereas before you only had the stupid
mask.


     jer