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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Fine-grained --autounmask-* options to disable keyword, license, or USE changes?
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 08:05:29
Message-Id: 95bcc933-4d38-d6ed-23cb-e144180d4ad1@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Fine-grained --autounmask-* options to disable keyword, license, or USE changes? by Zac Medico
1 On 08/12/2017 12:57 AM, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > Like --autounmask-keep-masks, it can be useful to prevent --autounmask
3 > from creating other kinds of changes:
4 >
5 > * keywords
6 > * license
7 > * use
8 >
9 > In order to prevent changes to keywords, should we be consistent with
10 > --autounmask-keep-masks, and call the option --autounmask-keep-keywords?
11 >
12 > Other ideas?
13 >
14 > See:
15 >
16 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622480
17 > https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/187
18 >
19
20 Should --autounmask-keep-keywords be independent of
21 --autounmask-keep-masks, so that it's possible to accept unmask changes
22 and reject keyword changes? Maybe it's not a very useful distinction in
23 practice, but making them independent seems cleaner in some ways.
24 --
25 Thanks,
26 Zac

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