When a package comes up as masked in an eix search, they are usually found in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, but if a particular masked package is not listed there... where else would it be.
I see libtool is masked above version 1.5.26-r1, but is not in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask... grep libtool /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask <nothing> Where else to look? Even this: search find /usr/portage/ -name 'package.mask' -exec grep libtool {} \; # Some weird libtool breakage on Solaris and Darwin Only finds the cited comment.