Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 23:19:43 +0200 Martin Schlemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| What about !arch or something (to connect with the one reply to the
| summary thread) to really indicate unstable on that arch? Should
| cover those things that sorda work on the arch, but you rather want
| developers or experienced users that can patch bugs to look at it ...
Those go in per-profile package.masks. It's more flexible than a
keyword.
Speaking of flexabilty, are there tools out there to perform look-ups
into p.masks to figure out why things are masked? There seems to be a
standard format to the file although the part at the beginning kind of
throws off a simpler regex. Flexability is good sure, but I would think
a developer needs to easily determine why something is pmasked ( broken,
"testing", security, removal, etc... ) and keywords do that a lot faster
than searching through a pmask file. If the searching is sped up via a
better format and a searching tool then all the better, yes?
The other thing being a keyword is right in the ebuild where pmask
status is in package.mask. I am not for putting pmask status in the
ebuild though, as that is not necessary, once again a tool problem :/
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