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From: Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Disable --autounmask auto-unmasking keywords / masks by default
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 03:39:51
Message-Id: 20191010163936.2f0f8363@katipo2.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Disable --autounmask auto-unmasking keywords / masks by default by Michael Everitt
1 On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 04:35:22 +0100
2 Michael Everitt <gentoo@×××××××.xyz> wrote:
3
4 > Is there any mileage in something as ridiculous as AUTOUNMASK_EXCLUDES ?
5
6 Would depend on what that means, where that variable was used, and what
7 it contains....
8
9 But the sort of breakage type it can trigger is not limited to any
10 specific package.
11
12 Pretty much any ** packages are prone to this happening, and that's so
13 unacceptable, that people have suggested/considered removing **
14 packages just to avoid this issue.
15
16 And that pretty much makes the defined purpose of those packages
17 useless, and makes that keywording grade useless.