Gentoo for Mac OS X developers take note: the 10.3 and 10.4 profiles are no longer linked to each other by inheritance; both now inherit directly from default-darwin/macos. There are several repercussions.
First and foremost, any masking that is to be done for collision-protect profiles must now be mirrored amongst both 10.3 and 10.4 profiles. Without multiple inheritance for profiles (coming in the next major version of portage, so I heard), there’s no other way around this, really.
On the lighter side, there’s no longer a need to add to package.unmask when masking packages for 10.3 only. This has been tedious and annoying for developers in the past.
If there are any problems or concerns, please let me know.
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