On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 08:59:37AM +0100, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...conversation about a proposed ebuild... > as it is its crashy, check the reported gaim crashes due to the theme > for example (yes. that was the 0.2 version). as ~ is -not- a playground > for broken packages or known buggy things I oppose the inclusion of this > until it can be shown as to not crash applications. This seems as good a place as any to mention one of my many ideas. ...which are usually ignored, but I might have a good one someday. How about a new KEYWORDS flag to mark known-crapulent packages. Playing off the use of "~arch" (which I read as "maybe arch"), use "!arch" (which could be read "not arch") to mark packages which are somewhere between useless and alpha, but happen to be worth watching and developing. It would also be a great way to move the hard-masking features of packages.mask into the relevant ebuild. Looks like that might simplify a chunk of portage.py, too.
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