On 09/12/2017 03:07 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:28:40 -0400 > schrieb Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org>: > >> I would advise against this INSTALL_MASK setting. It is quite likely >> to break things (like sys-fs/udev). > > No, it's not. > > I'd consider it a bug if systemd is not installed and > another package that doesn't depend on systemd relies on something that > is installed in a systemd subdirectory. > > And for me nothing was broken since several years now. > > And, like I said, I'm using eudev instead of udev. > > Heiko > You may be using eudev (and thus don't need to worry about it), but if a person blindly copies that into their make.conf and sys-fs/udev breaks, they'll get to keep the pieces because they deliberately screwed themselves. It's not a use case we can support. It doesn't mean INSTALL_MASK is always a bad idea; it's simply meant to be used by people who are fully aware of its effects.
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