On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:42:20 +0100 Harald van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| > And noauto and noclean do have specific genuine use, so it's not a
| > fair comparison.
| 
| Again irrelevant to the point, since regardless of whether they have
| some small valid use, they should not be recommended to users.

Not at all. They have value for developers. ACCEPT_RESTRICT has no
value for anyone.

| With ACCEPT_RESTRICT=-fetch, you tell it you don't want packages with
| RESTRICT=fetch, so portage /should/ complain regardless of whether the
| sources are available.

Which is my point -- that's a stupid thing to request. A sensible thing
to request would be "mask anything that will require me to fetch
something manually".

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Ciaran McCreesh
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