On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 04:46:04PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:38 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > All, > > > > Rich Freeman asked, in another thread, for specific examples of old > > package.mask entries that just have "masked for testing" as the > > description. > > > > Here is what I found with a quick look through package.mask. These > > should be cleaned up by either 1) removing the mask or 2) booting the > > affected packages or versions from the tree. > > > > Or 3) Improve the mask message. > > For example, I think the major reason for the sys-libs/db mask is a > weird licensing issue. It's still nice to have it in the tree.
If there is a weird licensing issue, it would be better to get the answers needed to resolve that issue and remove the mask. p.mask should never be permanent. William
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