On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:50:34 +0200 Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 14:30:56 +0200 > Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > There is no "instead". Why is there no "instead"? > The default policy (did you read the devmanual yet?) Which policy are you referring to? (Did you refer me to anything?) > is to DROP KEYWORDS (and let arch teams re-add them) Which is what I exactly did for the USE flags on most of the arches; and a bug was planned to be filed, such that they can decide on it. > -unless- that is really cumbersome (when you need to drop more and > more keywords as a result). Please do not make additional exceptions, we have enough of them. > Since you don't seem to get why this is. Let me give you an example. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Minor Arch User: I want cat-more/pkg with USE=foo but I can't enable > it. Why is USE=interesting masked? > Minor Arch Dev: I don't know. Let me look it up. > Minor Arch Dev: Ah, it's in > profiles/default/linux/somearch/package.use.mask: > # Some Package Maintainer <some@package.maintainer> (1 Jan 1970) > # dev-libs/interesting not keyworded so disabling, kthxbye > cat-more/pkg interesting > Minor Arch Dev: Apparently it was put there a long time ago. It has no > bug reference and I can't find a ChangeLog entry. Oh wait, it's > mentioned in profiles/ChangeLog-1971 but with the same uninformative > text. Right; bug reference added, I see no other problem here. > Minor Arch User: So what do I need to do? > Minor Arch Dev: Er, you write an entry > in /etc/portage/profile/package.keywords for the dev-libs/interesting > package (make sure to put the ~arch or '**', yeah?), and another entry > in /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask with the same entry as > package.use.mask (but with the sign of the USE flag inverted, right?). Whether you change package.keywords twice or change both once; it doesn't result in a difference in effort, I do not see your point here. > Then when you have successfully re-emerged cat-more/pkg with > USE=interesting, send me a new bug report so we can start removing the > bitrot from the arch profile and keywording stuff properly. Why file a duplicate bug? > (Several portage configuration explanations and bug hunts later.) For what? > (Minor Arch User exits stage left having gained happy happy support > for "interesting" in his pkg.) > Minor Arch Dev: O, if only the keyword had been dropped at the time, > and two more keywords had been re-added to cat-more/pkg and > dev-libs/interesting at the time, none of this would have been needed. > Mercy! > (Minor Arch Dev drinks the poison and drops to the floor) Two entries will continue to be two entries; so, I do not see where the difference in work comes from. Can you now please explain the exception? > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > > jer > -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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