On Sunday 02 April 2006 22:33, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > This is a recent change, and usually someone replies with "why not a > month?".
This is simply not true or we have very different ideas of the meaning of recent. The vast majority of "last rites" emails from 2005 had slated removals of one week or less. > It's not a requirement. It's a courtesy to your users and fellow > developers, at least some of whom would very much appreciate it if you > left things for ~four weeks rather than ~one. I don't see the necessity for devs and users would have to look at the package.mask file regularly to get the information that a package is masked. If Portage would be that smart to spit out the relevant information on emerge --sync, a longer period would probably make sense. Carsten
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