Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding a tiny install-mask directory list to gx86

2011-09-16 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:39:48 -0500 > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > >> On 11:36 Fri 16 Sep     , Michał Górny wrote: >> > The question is: where to store such a directory list? >> > >> > Keeping it inside project sources doesn't seem right as it wo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding a tiny install-mask directory list to gx86

2011-09-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:42:59 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday, September 16, 2011 11:14:28 Michał Górny wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:39:48 -0500 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > I don't want this in my repo. > > > > By *your* repo you mean dev overlay? Noone forces you to declare > > add

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding a tiny install-mask directory list to gx86

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 16, 2011 11:14:28 Michał Górny wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:39:48 -0500 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > I don't want this in my repo. > > By *your* repo you mean dev overlay? Noone forces you to declare > additional paths. i think he meant maintaining masks for pkgs in his repo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding a tiny install-mask directory list to gx86

2011-09-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:39:48 -0500 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 11:36 Fri 16 Sep , Michał Górny wrote: > > The question is: where to store such a directory list? > > > > Keeping it inside project sources doesn't seem right as it would > > require me to bump and re-release project every time

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding a tiny install-mask directory list to gx86

2011-09-16 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 11:36 Fri 16 Sep , Michał Górny wrote: > The question is: where to store such a directory list? > > Keeping it inside project sources doesn't seem right as it would > require me to bump and re-release project every time a directory is > added. Keeping it in separate package which would ne

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding a tiny install-mask directory list to gx86

2011-09-16 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, I'm working on a tiny project called install-mask[1] which is supposedly a simple tool to enable/disable INSTALL_MASK. One of its features would be a common list of named locations where users may really want to consider INSTALL_MASK-ing; in a way similar to USE flags (or even instead of r