On Monday 24 November 2008 10:15:46 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > portage-2.2.. has been masked. > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask tells me why > > "In order to ensure that portage-2.1.6 gets sufficient testing, > portage-2.2 will be masked in package.mask until portage-2.1.6 has > been marked stable." > > I feel like someone will try to educate me. > Yes, I can and will unmask it again, but why > am I forced to? > > I'd prefer if package.mask is used for buggy or dangerous > packages only.
+1 I ran into this same thing this morning and felt like mailing Zac a piece of my mind. Sanity prevailed though. I still feeling quite deeply offended though that a package maintainer has forced me to jump through a hoop simply because he would like an earlier version to "get tested more". -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
