commit: 6872325358f1b9f30273a50e22dabbbfc6ea8034 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Sun May 3 17:21:27 2015 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Wed May 6 22:06:49 2015 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/devmanual.git/commit/?id=68723253
Merge package.mask policy from Developer Handbook. This is taken from proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-policy-ebuild.xml, section "QA policy", subsection "Masked packages". Permission to reuse the CC-BY-SA-1.0 work under CC-BY-SA-2.0 (or any later version) obtained from author plasmaroo per e-mail on 2015-04-16. profiles/package.mask/text.xml | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/profiles/package.mask/text.xml b/profiles/package.mask/text.xml index ef57b28..6cef26d 100644 --- a/profiles/package.mask/text.xml +++ b/profiles/package.mask/text.xml @@ -5,10 +5,13 @@ <body> <p> -The <c>package.mask</c> file can be used to hard mask packages or certain versions -of packages. This is often used when adding certain experimental (either in -ebuild or upstream terms) packages to the tree. The format is described in -<c>man portage</c>. +The <c>package.mask</c> file can be used to hard mask packages or +certain versions of packages that should not be merged by users. +This is often used when adding certain experimental (either in ebuild +or upstream terms) packages to the tree, or to prevent merging of +packages that are broken or break something else. Every entry should +have a comment detailing the specific reason for the mask. The format +of the <c>package.mask</c> file is described in <c>man portage</c>. </p> <p>
