Why KNetworkManager has been masked for so long?
A package can have a bug but not be masked.* It depends on how serious
the problem is.* Apparently this one is serious enough that they masked
it.* It may be that it doesn't compile properly, could be a security
thing or any number of other reasons that a package would be masked.*
It could even be a bug report farther upstream.* I'm sure there is a
reason since it has been so long.* Just be glad it is working for you.*
It could be worse.
Dale
:-)* :-)
Jean-Marc Beaune wrote:
Ok, but if we look for Amarok, http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=amarok*,
there's a bunch of bugs for this application but it's not masked.
*
And again, I'm just curious, I only wondered if there was
something specifically bad with it.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
wrote:
Jean-Marc Beaune wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been thinking to move to KNetworkManager for a while (more
than
> one year) and seeing that it's always masked didn't make me
confident
> (I run as much as I can a stable arch).
> But finally I migrated from baselayout management to
KNetworkManager
> few days ago and it seems to work quite well (not a long experience
> though).
>
> Hence, the question, I'm just curious.
>
> Thank you.
>
> P.S.: I used
> [url="" moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/KNetworkManager%5Dthis%5B/url"
target="_blank">http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/KNetworkManager]this[/url
> <http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/KNetworkManager%5Dthis%5B/url>]
howto
> and it went just fine.
>
> --
> Jean-Marc
>
Here is some reading materials:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=knetworkmanager
I think this is the one that has it masked:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253788
Comment number 2 mentions this is why it is masked among other reasons.
Most of the time if something is masked, there is a bug for it. *Just
search for it. *Resolved bugs should not make a package be masked but
open ones can.
Hope that helps.
Dale
:-) *:-)
--
Jean-Marc
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