On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 09:22:24PM +0000, Markos Chandras wrote: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 01:30:15PM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:05:44 +0000 > > Markos Chandras <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Isn't that the point? People should be discouraged in every way not to > > > > use > > > > live ebuilds. I'd add a third if we had one. :) > > > > > > > > But yes, if I had to pick only one I'd go with dropping keywords over > > > > package.mask. In fact it looks like I have some live ebuilds in the > > > > tree > > > > that do exactly that. > > > > > > > Actually not. Users are already familiar with the -9999 concept so there > > > is no point to add extra obstacles in their way. I am trying to find out > > > corner cases where double masking makes sense. Otherwise it makes no > > > sense to me. Actually the majority of users get confused when a package > > > is double masked. Just drop by forums etc and you will see :) > > > > Again, that's the point. If you can't figure out how to get around a > > double mask then you have no business installing live ebuilds. > > > > But this is getting off topic. If you want to change the policy to > > recommend > > dropping keywords rather than using package.mask then I support it. > > package.mask has the disadvantage that it's too easy to accidentally unmask > > live versions with >=. And nothing stops someone from doing both if they > > want. > > > > > > -- > > fonts, gcc-porting, it makes no sense how it makes no sense > > toolchain, wxwidgets but i'll take it free anytime > > @ gentoo.org EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 > > 0662 > > If the majority of the devs ( at least of those who participate to this > thread ) is positive, then I will commit a patch to devmanual and > possibly migrate the cvs&svn sources pages into a single one.
Count me in on this policy change. I think that double masking is a pain as well. I would agree that we might want to document somewhere that if users are using "**" in package.keywords they really get to keep the pieces, since they will be installing live ebuilds. William
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