On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Duncan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mike Gilbert posted on Wed, 25 May 2016 11:52:46 -0400 as excerpted:
>
>> # Mike Gilbert <[email protected]> (25 May 2016)
>> # Causes build failures in unrelated packages due to invasive #
>> monkey-patching of easy_install (dev-python/setuptools).
>> # Remove this package in 30 days.
>> # Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/575844 dev-python/buildutils
>
> No revdeps, I take it?

Correct.

> (Especially with such obvious revdep connotation naming that's commonly
> put in the masking notice itself if so, with the revdeps masked as well
> if not, so the mention or mask of revdeps as well is obvious by omission
> here.)

I do try not to mask things that have revdeps; QA gets angry at me
when I miss them.

I do not find it useful to state the obvious in the mask message.

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