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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion related with dropping keywords policy
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:59:40
Message-Id: 20100614045910.7a513829@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion related with dropping keywords policy by Pacho Ramos
1 On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:29:19 +0200
2 Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > El dom, 13-06-2010 a las 14:43 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió:
5 > > El dom, 13-06-2010 a las 14:16 +0300, Petteri Räty escribió:
6 > > > On 06/11/2010 12:27 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
7 > > >
8 > > > >
9 > > > > From my point of view, I would prefer to:
10 > > > > 1. Mask "caps" for net-wireless/bluez on affected arches,
11 > > > > letting us to keep bluez keyworded.
12 > > > > 2. Open two bug reports as done with current policy: one for
13 > > > > keywording libcap-ng and other to check bluez works ok with it
14 > > > > asking arch team to unmask that USE flag if possible.
15 > > > >
16 > > >
17 > > > There's nothing preventing you from already doing this.
18 > > > package.use.mask is something package maintainers themselves
19 > > > should be looking after for their packages.
20 > > >
21 > > > Regards,
22 > > > Petteri
23 > > >
24 > >
25 > >
26 > > OK, thanks a lot :-D
27 >
28 > The problem is that hppa team seems to not allow others than they to
29 > edit their package.use.mask :-/, is there any special reason for it?
30
31 What is the problem? The files in place ask you to file a bug report
32 instead of fiddling with the files yourselves. I put that in place
33 because I got (fucking) tired of seeing the after effects of people
34 fiddling with the arch profile files without 1) consideration, 2)
35 informing the involved arch team. What do you expect? File a bloody bug
36 report detailing the (commit) problem you are facing and you will
37 probably see 1) response and 2) cooperation. If you fuck around with
38 the arch profile files without doing any of that, you will face 1) a
39 lack of willingness to cooperate and 2) evil wrath.
40
41
42 Regards,
43 jer

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