El dom, 24-02-2013 a las 09:35 -0500, Rich Freeman escribió: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Pacho Ramos <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would like to ask about adding "systemd" USE flag to use.stable.mask > > to let us stop needing to revbump packages with optional systemd support > > when stabilizing them. > > > > Are you ok with that? > > Am I interpreting the impacts of this correctly? I believe this would > mean that if you ran systemd on an otherwise-stable system (that is, > only systemd and possibly udev are in package.keywords) then you won't > get systemd support in any of your other packages, even if it is > available in a stable version of that package? My only VM running > systemd just happens to be in that configuration, but I'm willing to > admit that I'm a bit of an edge case. :) > > Why exactly do we need to revbump packages with optional systemd > support when stabilizing them in the first place? ~arch users would > already have systemd support compiled if they use it, and stable users > would get it when it is stabilized. > > I freely admit that there might be some nuance that I'm simply not > getting here... > > Rich > >
We need to revbump it because we cannot mark as stable a package that would pull a testing package when enabling a USE flag. Isn't there any way to unmask systemd USE flag on your local setup (running testing systemd)?
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