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From: Francesco Riosa <francesco@×××××××××.it>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] -* v.s. package.mask
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:44:57
Message-Id: 421F01E6.8040209@pnpitalia.it
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] -* v.s. package.mask by Georgi Georgiev
1 Georgi Georgiev ha scritto:
2
3 >I hope I am not really hijacking the thread, but:
4 >
5 >maillog: 25/02/2005-10:18:12(+0100): Francesco Riosa types
6 >
7 >
8 >>Maybe after some time it has been in the tree keyworded "-*" (testing,
9 >>testing, testing)?
10 >>
11 >>
12 >
13 >What's the policy for "-*" v.s. "package.mask"? '-*' is pretty annoying
14 >in my opinion. Is "-*" for really, really bad ebuilds or something?
15 >
16 >
17 Don't know well about gentoo policy about that, in this case, since it's
18 something completely new I suggest the "-*" like a request to be tested
19 from a developer on every arch before leave it at user testing.
20 In every case we are speaking of a still non-existing stuff.
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