Hi there,

The official policy for live ebuilds is the following one:

http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/cvs-sources/index.html

I don't quite agree with this policy and I guess most of you don't agree
either looking at the number of live ebuilds/package.mask entries.

My proposal is to keep empty keywords on live ebuilds without masking
them via package.mask

Users interpret this as a 'double masking' which in fact it is since
they need to touch two files before they are able to use the package.

I also know that we can use overlays for that, but distribute the
ebuilds among dev/proj overlays is not always a solution.

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Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
Gentoo Linux Developer
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