Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Cc: basile@××××××××××××××.edu
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users
Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 16:53:57
Message-Id: CAGfcS_ktxzqJp-73tTYXaHS0PoVG=YVu-tK_SnY0yfAScoLBiQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users by "Michał Górny"
1 On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 > We should probably consider extending the INSTALL_MASK a bit. A good
3 > idea would be to allow repositories to pre-define names
4 > for INSTALL_MASK (alike USE flags) and allow portage to control them
5 > over those names.
6
7 We'd need a corresponding way to unmask stuff as well, if we went that
8 route. It would add value for stuff like the embedded profile, but I
9 wouldn't want to see it used in the base profiles.
10
11 Rich