From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JaMev-0007Ss-5h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:02:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19022E04C0; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:02:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E82E3E04C0 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:02:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A5064EC9; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:02:06 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-qa] splitting up package.mask Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:03:02 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: "Alec Warner" , "Steve Dibb" References: <47D9EA1D.5070602@gentoo.org> <200803140651.15897.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2385844.jLYzILsP9b"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200803142303.03033.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 9bbe10d1-6b31-470c-a0ee-51762102b57f X-Archives-Hash: 532a74e622efa0b3dee2acd2eab8b26c --nextPart2385844.jLYzILsP9b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 14 March 2008, Alec Warner wrote: > On 3/14/08, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Thursday 13 March 2008, Steve Dibb wrote: > > > Because package.mask in CVS for profiles is so huge, I think it might > > > help it to get organized if we split it up a bit. > > > > > > halcyon had a good idea for the scheme: testing, broken, removal.=20 > > > That seems to sum up the main 3 reason that a package would be maske= d. > > > > > > Right now there are 679 entries in package.mask. The reason I came = up > > > with the idea was to find a way to make it easier for treecleaners to > > > quickly see which ones they were working on. > > > > > > I'd like to take the discussion to -dev but wanted to get QA's > > > thoughts first. I haven't looked into whether or not this is > > > technically feasible at all. > > > > i think the real solution here is allowing masking in a package > > You want to add a metadata key and cache it you mean? i dont care terribly much about the logistics, just the results. as long a= s=20 an ebuild can declare itself masked, it sounds good to me. this doesnt preclude the other ideas as there are often times where you wan= t=20 to have 1 global package mask piece (like large package set bumps ... so X = or=20 KDE or GNOME or ...). =2Dmike --nextPart2385844.jLYzILsP9b Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUAR9s8ZkFjO5/oN/WBAQLlNA/+KLOD//f28rsGJg6EuJDBuiqdL9WFjsu/ 1uA4i/A0QNVds3QVkzMwbE7ucIC570PdVV58Nj9ZuD5AaThvxRypXoP1npImKS5B ofM3rHAxnoZts1eRlGk8uJ8jA8A557bX4HQeG41MxC3n7K0LkurNBzPEXD3s8ii/ rtg1S7Um2qpth+c+y/72xnw6FZ+bW8mlU1ei2Pb8XrGot065Y7ZSxIK9gq9B2aW8 6f3DV1EN7F8ptJjcQECXu5I0SfxY1v59cK4UruG/A9LsjUV3ZG9B6cIfL50Oul8Q 7dJCLV0v0hOHQhnxxxHOk2JLWbN/OrhV80/4U8Q+eFECAqoQ3ZMkfbM9H2NP9PCz o5biMQy3KSxK7PumSFifcVabPwB8RxE5sVlFsU6zLpOrqgvJo2l+DsJL3YtAO4Qx RPjZDY84/TuYKrojsxzdotgTDOvllFBxT1tu6lW6xzxutCl4UrzENC4Qc9lozG9V or7OyPFqtmxEySETKqcLA50/gooNY1cHqVdoB89Xs3E5NgrrvdB0jfVoaVOL6P6x AaZqx7rljE9IDzzgRe1dF/Yz0bDurROrUMogIc435ifevkeoPAOrbszUaGXwKDu0 5PABaOZtZUes6ILUUUAjXWF0LMIm26dfrCOP6Fq+BJ82Ae6kZlkf2lHNLDKPg/A5 RCJfZQzWqPU= =d7B7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2385844.jLYzILsP9b-- -- gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org mailing list