On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:43:24 +0000 "Steven J. Long" wrote: > Tom Wijsman wrote: > It's evidently meant for a few packages which would break, to avoid > obvious breakage, and not as a blanket mechanism.
Yes, it is; but a package consists of multiple ebuilds, and thus, the individual files of the individual ebuilds are brought up as they would need to be tracked, which brings in more work to the maintainer. -- [OT] Below talk is about whom is addressed & gentoo-dev ML etiquette. > > If we were to take this example to its extreme; then we would have > > to create an inventory of which INSTALL_MASK entries are good and > > bad for each ebuild, in which we cover all the files installed by > > that ebuild. > > Why are you directing this at me? The quoted paragraph is directed at anyone reading the example; and given I direct it to them, you are directed to as part of this out of respect to allow you to update the example if you need to. > it's still rude of you to constantly quote people's email addresses Why is it rude? There are a lot of other developers on the list here that do this as well; so, if you want to see this changed then please bring it up for a vote. Un-CC-ed and stripped this time per request; being able to set this on a specific person, however, I don't see how to do that in my mailing client. Patches to do as such are welcome. -- 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
