On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > We should probably consider extending the INSTALL_MASK a bit. A good > idea would be to allow repositories to pre-define names > for INSTALL_MASK (alike USE flags) and allow portage to control them > over those names.
We'd need a corresponding way to unmask stuff as well, if we went that route. It would add value for stuff like the embedded profile, but I wouldn't want to see it used in the base profiles. Rich
