[gentoo-user] What does # mean in emerge output?

2013-01-13 Thread Chris Stankevitz
# emerge --oneshot --ask wxGTK These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R #] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.9.4.1 Hello, In the above emerge instance, a # symbol appears in the emerge output. What does this mean? man emerge seems to skip

Re: [gentoo-user] What does # mean in emerge output?

2013-01-13 Thread Matthias Hanft
Chris Stankevitz wrote: In the above emerge instance, a # symbol appears in the emerge output. What does this mean? man emerge seems to skip this when describing these OUTPUTS. My man emerge says: Symbol Mask Type --

Re: [gentoo-user] What does # mean in emerge output?

2013-01-13 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Matthias Hanft m...@hanft.de wrote: So your package seems to be masked by an entry in /etc/portage/package.mask. Matt, Thank you. I read that very section but missed the definition of # somehow. FYI in this case the package is masked by the devs and unmasked