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From: Paul Varner <fuzzyray@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCHES] Remove --autounmask, rename --autounmask-write to --autounmask
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:31:02
Message-Id: 528E353A.1000203@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCHES] Remove --autounmask, rename --autounmask-write to --autounmask by Alexander Berntsen
1 On 11/21/13 03:21, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
2 > After talking to zmedico privately, and raising the issue and
3 > discussing it with people in bug #481578[0], I implemented the
4 > behaviour described in a comment[1] on said bug.
5 >
6 > I sent this to zmedico almost two months ago, but it doesn't look like
7 > he's coming back any time soon, so I'm sending it here and ask someone
8 > to review and commit it (a role zmedico has typically played for me,
9 > as well as being my "mentor" and guide and so on and so forth for
10 > Portage hacking).
11 >
12 > [0] <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481578>
13 > [1] <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481578#c10>>
14
15 I turn off autounmask because I don't find it useful. I have found too
16 many times when it wants me to unmask something that really doesn't need
17 to be unmasked.
18
19 It is not clear to me from the patches if I can still do that.
20
21 Regards,
22 Paul

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCHES] Remove --autounmask, rename --autounmask-write to --autounmask Alexander Berntsen <alexander@××××××.net>