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From: David Leverton <levertond@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Council meeting: Tuesday 14 August 2012, 19:00 UTC
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 15:03:38
Message-Id: CALc3eMXqgP2xBJs9zDQu0qCi-4jAvpyB-B89p6nG2wU5zK0L+Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Council meeting: Tuesday 14 August 2012, 19:00 UTC by "Michał Górny"
1 On 14 August 2012 23:20, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:02:04 +0100
3 > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
4 >> There's still the issue that we haven't decided what [use] deps do
5 >> when they show up in profile files. We were sticking at 1 until we
6 >> worked that out.
7 >
8 > Ah, about that. It will be useful if [use] deps in package.mask worked
9 > unlike in package.use.mask, thus giving us a tool to temporarily mask
10 > packages which are broken only with given flags.
11
12 Do we have a verdict on this? What Michał suggests for package.mask
13 sounds OK to me, but use deps in package.use, package.use.mask, etc
14 could be rather nastier, and I'd be inclined to ban those unless
15 someone has a better idea.

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Re: [gentoo-project] Council meeting: Tuesday 14 August 2012, 19:00 UTC Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>