On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:23:35 +0200 Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| On Friday 16 September 2005 22:38, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > That's not my idea. That's policy. I just happen to a) have actually
| > read what policy says and b) agree with it.
| 
| First: I know you're proposing this regularly, but please show me the
| policy - I'm sure your interpretation doesn't match mine.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3&chap=1

> There is a difference between using package.mask and ~arch for
> ebuilds. The use of ~arch denotes an ebuild requires testing. The use
> of package.mask denotes that the application or library itself is
> deemed unstable.

| Second: a) and b) doesn't match what's going on with large parts of
| the tree 

Good time for package maintainers to start following policy properly,
eh?

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