[Wigwam-devel] rebuild-package-list and "bad_packages"

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so rebuild-package-list  has this "feature" about bad packages
where it reads a file src/bad_packages and presumably does not list 
those
as a "bad" package.

if that's the correct assumption, it doesn't actually work at all.

because the bad_packages is parsed by a grep -v '^[^#]'  piped
to a while.
this has  two problems, the grep is like a double negative and
only pulls out lines that have comments, and the pipe to while
causes a subshell, and so the fact that the bad packages
check was built up is ignored by the main shell.

so, I've got that fixed, but I have a few questions about bad_packages.

1. is my assumption above correct about how it should work.
2. how is this "bad_packages" list any different than
    cvs removing the package?  not being in the package list
    effectively makes it un-useable, but not removing it from cvs
    just makes it take up space.
3. does it make sense for the bad_packages list to be stored in
    $PLAYPEN_ROOT/src/bad_packages   it would seem to me like
    this file should be in etc/

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