On Tuesday 19 July 2005 07:39 am, Ned Ludd wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 00:47 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Sunday 17 July 2005 12:03 pm, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > > INSTALL_MASK is non cumulative.
> > > Please use INSTALL_MASK="${INSTALL_MASK} /usr/lib/charset.alias" as to
> > > not override the user in anyway.
> >
> > any harm with making it cumulative ?
> > iirc, it takes just a few minor tweaks
> > to portage to declare it as such
>
> None that I can think of. other than it not working that way now and if
> we start assuming it does too soon in the next XYZ version and the user
> is still on ABC they will end up with a non up masked files. Not that it
> should be to much of a real problem as imasking remains one of portages
> better kept secrets and not that many people are using them outside of
> embedded.
right, most people arent using it right now so i dont see much harm in
changing (improving!) behavior
-mike
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