[gentoo-qa] profiles/package.mask entries

[gentoo-qa] profiles/package.mask entries

[Torsten Veller]

* Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> (10 Apr 2010):
> These might be valid ones to force downgrades etc., so take this message
> only as a friendly reminder that these entries are in main package.mask
> file and don't effect on any packages that's in portage right now:
[...]
> tove@gentoo.org:
> 
> dev-perl/Email-MIME-Modifier
> dev-perl/Email-MIME-Creator
> dev-perl/Email-Simple-Creator
> dev-perl/XML-LibXML-Common
> dev-perl/Class-XSAccessor-Array

Later that day:

19:13 <@tove> hm, i added the dev-perl masks because it's the only way to
              warn users who still have the package
              installed. portage ignores installed but unavailable packages
19:18 <@ssuominen> tove: that's fine, no hurry to remove them



In Jul 2010 the mask was removed:
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/package.mask?r1=1.11751&r2=1.11752


I wonder, does scarabeus know what he is doing? Is half a year long
enough? Shouldn't I mask it at all? Why do I add my name to the mask if
i am not even asked before my masks are removed?


In April i joined #g-portage to ask for a warning if non-available
packages are installed. I didn't file a bug and i don't know if
anything was actually changed in portage.


Thanks