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 1Ja099-0006EC-2a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:59:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46ED2E063F; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:59:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from QMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.48]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEEDBE063F for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:59:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.11]) by QMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 0omq1Z0010EPchoA50Cf00; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:58:33 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([76.23.44.115]) by OMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 0qzm1Z0012V5hVo8M00000; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:59:47 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=7ttxmK4dhHWqXOUTvo0A:9 a=eQs4_XQs-j-1Bua9SKDMQ3tbEr8A:4 a=b8hG5vVbyAkA:10 Message-ID: <47D9EA1D.5070602@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:59:41 -0600 From: Steve Dibb User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071118) 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 To: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-qa] splitting up package.mask Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7129b95d-ed6c-47e7-85fd-7b6effaa5b52 X-Archives-Hash: f95bdd21373512b291ebfc1e6c04108d Hey guys, I have an idea I'd like to run by the QA team. For a user's portage preferences, we can have /etc/package.mask be a file or a directory of files (package.mask/*) that will cumulatively create the same effect. 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. That seems to sum up the main 3 reason that a package would be masked. 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. Steve -- gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org mailing list