Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] Meaning of p.mask

[Simon Stelling]

> It's not so much the case that no-one dares try pmasked pkgs.  Taking a
> quick trip through the forum will turn up many examples of people who do.
>  But the longstanding policy with masked pkgs is 'this is unsupported - if
>  it breaks, don't come to us - use at your own risk'.  Right now there are
>  plenty of people using the Gnome 2.12 RC or xorg 6.8.99 or gcc 4 or the
>  masked utopia stack, but they know better than to file bugs because it
>  will just be closed as invalid.  Personally, the only time i'll file a
>  bug against a masked package is when i have a patch.

I think you have to distinguish between packages beeing in p.mask because they 
really need a lot of testing and should only be tested by users that are able to 
  fix their system themselves and packages that are in p.mask because they're 
horribly broken. I filed 4 bugs about gnome 2.12 without adding a single patch, 
3 of them got closed a day later.

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Simon Stelling
Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead
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