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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 22:11:11
Message-Id: 20050906230829.06f4b367@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep by "Stephen P. Becker"
1 On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:46:40 -0400 "Stephen P. Becker"
2 <geoman@g.o> wrote:
3 | This is true, however it requires users to possibly make a gazillion
4 | entries in their /etc/portage/package.unmask if they want to use a
5 | lot of what are considered truly unstable packages.
6
7 There are dozens of scripts floating around that will automatically
8 create the relevant package.mask and package.keywords entries for a
9 given package and its dependencies. Maybe it would be worth someone
10 cleaning one of them up and sticking it somewhere sensible...
11
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13 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
14 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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