On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 16:54:30 -0700
Zac Medico <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/02/2015 04:40 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 13:08:29 -0700
> > Zac Medico <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 10/02/2015 07:49 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I am getting the output below when I run repoman full for
> >>> sys-apps/systemd.
> >>>
> >>> It is basically telling me that systemd (which is masked in the
> >>> selinux profiles) cannot depend on sys-apps/dbus[systemd], because
> >>> the systemd use flag is also masked.
> >>>
> >>> That's perfectly fine and I suppose it is valid, but there is
> >>> nothing I can do to resolve it and I don't need to be reminded of
> >>> it every time I run repoman.
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone find dependency.badmasked useful?
> >>
> >> Possibly, if I wanted to see dependency issues for masked packages.
> > 
> > 
> > why not also ignore *use.mask along with package.mask for this
> > check ?
> > 
> 
> Can you give a concrete example? I'm having a hard time thinking up a
> reason to ignore use.mask.

Well, ignoring completely use.mask won't work: people use it because
the dep doesnt work and thus has missing keywords.

But, maybe something in between could work: drop dependency.badmasked
warnings that are satisfied when ignoring use.mask.

Is there anything I'm missing ?

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