On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 19:13 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > I hope I am not really hijacking the thread, but: > > maillog: 25/02/2005-10:18:12(+0100): Francesco Riosa types > > Maybe after some time it has been in the tree keyworded "-*" (testing, > > testing, testing)? > > What's the policy for "-*" v.s. "package.mask"? '-*' is pretty annoying > in my opinion. Is "-*" for really, really bad ebuilds or something?
Like many things in Gentoo, there is no hard and fast policy. The general rule is that you use -* when you don't want *anyone* accidentally installing the ebuild. A good example would be a newer version of glibc that could potentially do something very nasty if the user didn't follow the directions. In this case, you would p.mask it *and* use -*, to keep people who happen to have "sys-libs/glibc" in their p.unmask. This forces the person want to test to manually intervene to get the package, and ensures that people running the package *want* to run the package. You will also see -* in binary ebuilds, as it tells people that this will *only* work on the platforms in KEYWORDS, like KEYWORDS="-* x86 amd64" would do. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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