On 27/8/2005 13:34:15, Brian Harring ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Rough filtering stack- > profiles/package.mask > /etc/make.profile/package.mask (incremental through subprofiles) > users package.mask, and users package.unmask > > Ordered it in that fashion to show that it's effectively repository > filtering, profile filtering, user filtering; if you view it as > seperate entities with filters stacked up (how the rewrite implements > it), package.mask being repository metadata becomes clear.
Would it make sense to simply relocate the global package.mask and package.unmask to the base profile from which all profiles derive (haven't checked that they all do)? Users's data could be placed in the users profile at /etc/portage/profile instead of /etc/portage, and the concept of global package mask/unmask as repository metadata would go away. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
