On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:10:32PM +0000, Duncan wrote: > As a user who regularly uses certain live ebuilds (and contrasting SP), > strongly agreed. If the double-masking is confusing them, they're better > off sticking with standard versioned ebuilds as they're demonstrably not > up to dealing with other difficulties which might arise with a live > package and Gentoo doesn't need the extra bug noise. Double-masking for > live ebuilds in the main tree thus seems to me to be the best policy.
The way I see it there are already several layers of masking you can
control in package.keywords. You can unmask a specific version of a
package, unmask all ~arch versions of a package, or unmask all versions
regardless of keywords which is what ** does.
I think that if we document somewhere that ** will install live ebuilds
and that if users do that they really get to keep the pieces we are
covered. I think that if a user is playing around with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS
and /etc/portage/package.{keywords,mask,unmask}, especially if they are
installing live ebuilds, they should be comfortable with
troubleshooting.
William
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