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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Change policy about live ebuilds
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:56:10
Message-Id: 20101121130003.256f5ad7@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Change policy about live ebuilds by Markos Chandras
1 On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:11:53 +0000
2 Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Users interpret this as a 'double masking' which in fact it is since
5 > they need to touch two files before they are able to use the package.
6
7 Isn't that the point? People should be discouraged in every way not to use
8 live ebuilds. I'd add a third if we had one. :)
9
10 But yes, if I had to pick only one I'd go with dropping keywords over
11 package.mask. In fact it looks like I have some live ebuilds in the tree
12 that do exactly that.
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15 --
16 fonts, gcc-porting, it makes no sense how it makes no sense
17 toolchain, wxwidgets but i'll take it free anytime
18 @ gentoo.org EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Change policy about live ebuilds Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>