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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