  The soft breaking terms in supersymmetric theories are calculated at some
high scale characterizing the hidden supersymmetry breaking sector, and then
evolved down to the TeV scale. These parameters are usually presented as the
ones that should be compared to experiment. The physical parameters however are
those occurring in the quantum effective (1PI) action - in particular the
physical mass is the location of the pole in the full quantum propagator. Here
we discuss the relation between the two and the possible existence of additive
contributions to the gaugino mass. We argue that infra red effects which
violate non-renormalization theorems are absent (for the 1PI action) if the
calculation is done at a generic point in field space so that an effective IR
cutoff is present. It follows that if a gaugino mass term is absent in the
Wilsonian action it is absent in the 1PI action.
