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On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:50:34 +0200 |
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Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 14:30:56 +0200 |
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> Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote: |
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> There is no "instead". |
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Why is there no "instead"? |
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> The default policy (did you read the devmanual yet?) |
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Which policy are you referring to? (Did you refer me to anything?) |
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> is to DROP KEYWORDS (and let arch teams re-add them) |
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Which is what I exactly did for the USE flags on most of the arches; |
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and a bug was planned to be filed, such that they can decide on it. |
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> -unless- that is really cumbersome (when you need to drop more and |
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> more keywords as a result). |
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Please do not make additional exceptions, we have enough of them. |
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> Since you don't seem to get why this is. Let me give you an example. |
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> Minor Arch User: I want cat-more/pkg with USE=foo but I can't enable |
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> it. Why is USE=interesting masked? |
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> Minor Arch Dev: I don't know. Let me look it up. |
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> Minor Arch Dev: Ah, it's in |
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> profiles/default/linux/somearch/package.use.mask: |
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> # Some Package Maintainer <some@×××××××.maintainer> (1 Jan 1970) |
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> # dev-libs/interesting not keyworded so disabling, kthxbye |
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> cat-more/pkg interesting |
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> Minor Arch Dev: Apparently it was put there a long time ago. It has no |
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> bug reference and I can't find a ChangeLog entry. Oh wait, it's |
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> mentioned in profiles/ChangeLog-1971 but with the same uninformative |
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> text. |
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Right; bug reference added, I see no other problem here. |
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> Minor Arch User: So what do I need to do? |
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> Minor Arch Dev: Er, you write an entry |
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> in /etc/portage/profile/package.keywords for the dev-libs/interesting |
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> package (make sure to put the ~arch or '**', yeah?), and another entry |
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> in /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask with the same entry as |
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> package.use.mask (but with the sign of the USE flag inverted, right?). |
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Whether you change package.keywords twice or change both once; it |
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doesn't result in a difference in effort, I do not see your point here. |
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> Then when you have successfully re-emerged cat-more/pkg with |
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> USE=interesting, send me a new bug report so we can start removing the |
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> bitrot from the arch profile and keywording stuff properly. |
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Why file a duplicate bug? |
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> (Several portage configuration explanations and bug hunts later.) |
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For what? |
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> (Minor Arch User exits stage left having gained happy happy support |
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> for "interesting" in his pkg.) |
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> Minor Arch Dev: O, if only the keyword had been dropped at the time, |
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> and two more keywords had been re-added to cat-more/pkg and |
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> dev-libs/interesting at the time, none of this would have been needed. |
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> Mercy! |
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> (Minor Arch Dev drinks the poison and drops to the floor) |
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Two entries will continue to be two entries; so, I do not see where the |
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difference in work comes from. Can you now please explain the exception? |
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> jer |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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