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On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote: |
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> That is an edge case; it's somewhat hard to maintain a package if you |
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> can't test it, and there are occasions (eg. Amazon EC2 related |
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> packages) where this is indeed needed. I don't see a need to introduce |
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> that masked though; but again, it depends on how edgy it is... |
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No argument there. I think that use of package masks for |
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testing-related purposes should be rare and short-lived. I just don't |
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think that banning them entirely is the right solution. If they're |
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done right they probably shouldn't be noticed by the majority. |
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Rich |
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