On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 08:14:52 +0200 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> However, please > + do not include it in the <c>package.mask</c> entry as users do not need > + to be forced to proactively unmerge it. I can think of a utilitarian value of doing this anyway. Namely, it gives a window during `emerge -uD @world` where portage tells you that they have a masked package installed, and the reason. Ideally, people don't have virtuals in their world file, but they do anyway, which means you can't guarantee the lack of dependents resulting in a depclean directed purge. And this can matter, as if its in your world file, or sometimes, if its even still installed, portage can trip up during upgrades with a more confusing error about the virtual not being installable. Outdated overlays add to this problem somewhat. :/
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