Christian Faulhammer posted on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:13:22 +0100 as excerpted:
> Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net>: >> 1) Users using ** in their package.keywords file should know enough >> about what they're doing to use their own package.mask, as well. If >> they're using ** in the keywords file, they're /saying/ they're reading >> to handle such things, after all, why shouldn't we let them? > > They do it, because they don't know what they are doing. Just seen it > somewhere, heard about it. During LinuxTag the question why ** unmasks > some live ebuilds occured at least three times. Real user question numbers like that are useful to know. Thanks. Sure beats general hand-wavy arguments (like mine too, was). =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
