On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 01:11:53PM +0000, Markos Chandras wrote: > Hi there, > > The official policy for live ebuilds is the following one: > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/cvs-sources/index.html > > I don't quite agree with this policy and I guess most of you don't agree > either looking at the number of live ebuilds/package.mask entries. > > My proposal is to keep empty keywords on live ebuilds without masking > them via package.mask > > Users interpret this as a 'double masking' which in fact it is since > they need to touch two files before they are able to use the package.
I agree. Forcing the users to add ${P} ** in their keywords is enough,
it states that "they're on their own".
> I also know that we can use overlays for that, but distribute the
> ebuilds among dev/proj overlays is not always a solution.
+1
for big projects like KDE, overlays are a better place, but for small
packages, they are overkill.
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