Harm Geerts wrote: > On Wed, March 14, 2007 09:32, Lucian Muresan wrote: >>> Doesn't "*-" mean that you need to add the package to the >>> /etc/portage/packages.unmask file? >> I don't know (or remember now) if that's a common policy dictated by >> some eclass, or it's just package specific. If it's package specific it >> might not affect the kaa-* pacs as they're completely unknown to >> mainline portage anyway. > > Packages masked with "-*" can be unmasked by adding the package to > /etc/portage/package.keywords with the "-*" keyword. This is not related > to package.unmask > > KEYWORDS="-*" actually means "This package does not work on any arch". > Because of this the use of "-*" is discouraged and currently being phased > out [1] in favor of the "**" keyword (which can also be defined as > KEYWORDS="" in the ebuild). > > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160519
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