From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OgBZa-0005yi-6L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 07:06:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C344FE07C9 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 07:06:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay03.ispgateway.de (smtprelay03.ispgateway.de [80.67.31.26]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11D42E0AC3 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 06:44:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [93.210.56.12] (helo=arkane.local) by smtprelay03.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1OgBES-0006MJ-QS for gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:44:12 +0200 Received: by arkane.local (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AC08415929; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:44:07 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:44:07 +0200 From: Torsten Veller To: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-qa] profiles/package.mask entries Message-ID: <20100803082816.TAc2b81f.tv@veller.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org References: <4BC0A9AE.8040504@gentoo.org> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BC0A9AE.8040504@gentoo.org> X-Face: ===_______=8)_=8)_______A_very_very_nice_face_______=8)_=8)_______=== Jabber-ID: tove@jabber.ccc.de X-PGP-Fingerprint: 0416 3C11 8D79 65B9 AAD0 2065 BBC7 14D1 9C67 CD96 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-04-22) X-Df-Sender: 1067115 X-Archives-Salt: a66ee645-6e04-43a7-8631-7b26dc6a331a X-Archives-Hash: e4a4a7a0b7d1def434d83faa2e187ba5 * Samuli Suominen (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