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Bug 121984 - Enhancements for masked packages
Summary: Enhancements for masked packages
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Infrastructure
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] gpackages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Infrastructure
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Reported: 2006-02-07 07:13 UTC by Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED)
Modified: 2007-11-08 07:30 UTC (History)
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Description Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-02-07 07:13:07 UTC 
There's really two requests here.  I have been getting bug reports on packages that are marked -arch every now and then.  The problem is that users see that it is "grey" in packages.gentoo.org and try using it, not knowing that we have specifically set it -arch because it doesn't work and is known to not work.  Is there any way we can have some other indicator for packages that are either -arch or in an architecture's package.mask?
Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-09-12 16:45:55 UTC 
Reassigning to the main infra group since Marduk is retired.
Comment 2 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2007-11-08 07:30:25 UTC 
New packages2 uses red to mask it off totally, but this is a problem with user education, not the site.