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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Portage should not mask packages globally, but only for some arches
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:00:20
Message-Id: iib2sf$aae$1@dough.gmane.org
1 It seems that KDE 4.6 is still hard-masked for x86 and amd64 because
2 it's waiting for ppc and ppc64 keywords. I believe it would be
3 beneficial for people if they wouldn't have to wait for arches that
4 don't affect them at all.
5
6 It seems better if the packages can be unmasked for x86 and amd64 and
7 only kept hard-masked for ppc/ppc64 while they wait for keywords.
8 Otherwise, all arches will feel the effect of the slowest one without
9 there being a need for this.

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